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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (41344)	4/6/2000 4:38:00 AM
From: William C. Spaulding	Respond to of 74651

When you have Corel selling a suite that is every bit as good (and sometimes better) as the MS suite, AND Corel's has always been markedly cheaper than the MS Suite in the stores, you know something is fishy when there is only one national PC OEM which offers the Win/Corel system (sans MS app suite). Very fishy. Because Microsoft sells many more copies of Office than Corel does of WordPerfect, MS Office could actually be MUCH CHEAPER because Microsoft can spread its capital costs over a larger distribution. But they don't. This is were Microsoft is getting all of its money. I also agree that Corel WordPerfect is, in many ways, superior to Office. Another product that's probably going to go down the tubes with Corel is Borland's Delphi and other programming tools, since they recently acquired them. Borland's (Inprise/Corel) programming tools usually won Editor's Choice over Microsoft's products, even though Microsoft has the advantage of knowing the operating system in detail, since they designed it. Thus, Microsoft will have a monopoly in that area, too.

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (41344)	4/6/2000 4:40:00 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

DEK: Corel is going to chapter 11 under their own steam. Once again it is not the duty of MSFT to keep its competitors in business. Corel has failed because Corel's management has failed- full stop. Many software companies (in the 10's of thousands) have survived within the the Windows dominated market. It is all too often becoming the accepted excuse that "MSFT did us in" which is no more than corporate whining and why MSFT has been put in the position that they have been put in this very day. For instance Quicken has thrived even though MSFT has expressed a great desire to overcome them in their own space. Now should MSFT be disallowed from bringing out financial applications and mimicking Intuit's offerings? Where then would Intuit's competition be? JFD