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Technology Stocks : Corel Corp. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zax who wrote (8813)	3/30/2000 11:54:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

Corel repackages Debian Linux which is not in the "retail" market but still significant. FreeBSD is not Linux so that isn't counted, either. Finally, when you grow from zero to some number based on a repackage of somebody else's product, growth can look phenominal in percentage terms. I say "can" because it looks like little or no growth in this case. The company can dump boxes on retail shares but eventually they get returned. Linux will gain market share through the IBMs and Intels of the world, as will FreeBSD and let's not forget the now free Solaris from Sun Microsystems. I would be careful about investing in empty words from a this company. Look at their track record: how many pump and dump efforts are you going to fall for? When are people going to factor in the actual results? Now I guess, the stock has been dropping like a rock but there's still plenty of downside. Corel is the king of jumping on aging bandwagons with nothing but hollow bluster then falling flat on its face. Issuing a press release about a sub 2% market share of a free product wrapped in a Corel box is telling indeed.