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

To: Lewis Edinburg who wrote (8824)	4/6/2000 4:32:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

As a shareholder, perhaps you should contact the management and tell them how they plan on turning false and misleading information into much needed credibility. They have yet to make a success of this strategy, on the contrary. Of course they will disagree with my interpretation but that's hardly going to change the facts: Corel is one of the world's largest developers of business productivity, graphics and operating systems solutions. Corel has not developed an operating system, they simply repackaged somebody else's Linux distribution. They didn't develop their office products either: they salvaged them from Novel and others. Now they sell the stuff to the El Cheapo computer vendors who need an "office" product for their marketing checklist. It is also the Linux market leader, providing a single source for end-to-end solutions encompassing all major platforms as well as a range of productivity applications, development tools, and professional services. The Linux market leader? Although it's a conveniently vague statement, there is no twisted logic that could possibly support that claim: none. Corel needs to stop trying to sell nickel-and-dime investors with bucket loads of pure hogwash and spend more time developing the limited business opportunties still left to them, if any. Corel also became the first company to offer a Linux operating system specifically developed for the desktop market and continues to develop a range of applications to run on Linux. Corel did not develop Linux or even create a distribution, per se. They stripped down an existing distribution, which anybody can do, and they are I suppose calling that Linux for the desktop. Well, Red Hat and virtually every other version of Linux can be configured for the desktop. Corel was not only not the first, they can't even claim to have developed anything of the sort. I'm trying hard to think of what Corel has achieved over the years other than empty statements. Talk is cheap and maybe one day they'll wake up and realize why their claims are routinely dismissed as nonsense.