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To: Tom C who wrote (4632)	2/20/2000 9:45:00 PM
From: Jerry Whlan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Wine has two components, the emulator part and the wine-lib part. Wine-lib's goal is to allow an application vendor to take a program targeted for windows, recompile and have it run as a native application on linux. Corel's product makes use of the wine-lib portion of wine. Thus the whole terminal-server/emulator debate is not particularly applicable to Corel's products - they are native linux applications.

To: Tom C who wrote (4632)	2/22/2000 12:27:00 AM
From: Kiriakos Georgiou	Respond to of 5102

The feature is with linux native apps or VMWARE.

To: Tom C who wrote (4632)	2/26/2000 1:42:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Corel's applications are 80's hairballs they inherited from a variety of sources including Borland. Corel has kept them alive but they are primarily a bullet item for motherboards and el-cheapo computers: Windows Office Suite Included! Now Corel is trying to make a name for itself selling a stripped down version of Debian's Linux distribution with Corel stickers slapped on the box. They spammed the channel with crate-loads of boxes that will likely be returned. The simple fact is, Inprise has survived despite management, as has Corel, not because of management.