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

To: JC Jaros who wrote (9027)	5/14/2000 9:19:00 AM
From: BP Ritchie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9798

Hi JC! I've attempted to install & use several Linux packages as well. Caldera, Mandrake (Rhat 6.x base), Slackware, a couple of others. None come close to Corel for ease of install and use. Corel Linux is the first, and so far the only one that installed and worked without any 'tweaking' ... only post-install problem was Sound Card support. Corel is ONLY one that detected and setup my shared Internet connection on a cable MODEM ... when the automatic install was finished I could type URLs into the Netscape browser and it worked. Corel was the only one that could read and edit my existing Windows data files, I could read, modify and share (Win98 Peer to Peer) Word Processing and Spreadsheet documents stored on a Win98 PC Hardisk just as easily as any Windows system using Corel software that effectively costs less than 5% of comparable Microsoft products running on a much cheaper hardware platform than Win98 requires. Corel Linux is the only one that I have been able to give to Grade 7 & 8 students that they can install and use without any assistance. It outperforms Windows on the same PC, it is more reliable than Windows. The other Linux packages would probably be able to do the same ... except we don't know because none of them went into regular use because of the difficulties encountered during install. But, it looks to me like the biggest 'problem' that Corel has is Mr Cowpland, himself ... he has pissed off a lot of people. Canadians react very strongly to another Canadian that is arrogant and successful ... they put a lot of effort into punishing (Canadian character trait) their countrymen that don't conform to the acceptable 'colonial' behaviour model. Cowpland seems as brash and bold as even the most extreme Americans ... he is attracting a lot of personal opposition because of this, maybe our share prices would improve if he moved to Silicon Valley ... he'd look almost 'normal' there (think of Larry Ellison). PS ... I think the most valuable asset Corel has is NOT software (Linux or Windows based) but, it's customer base and distribution channels. If this company was in Silicon Valley instead of the Ottawa Valley it would probably be valued in the Billion Dollar range without Inprise right now, and the 'merger problems' would probably not exist. There are lots of software 'products' that can meet market requirements ... Corel's may not be the best technically (Rod & friends make sure we know this) but, they are good enough. They are the easiest to implement for the largest share of the market population, and they seem to be the cheapest of all. If & when the Microsoft 'monopoly' power influence on the market is removed or effectively restrained Corel should do very well ... unless they get eliminated first (usual Microsoft marketing tactic). There are many folks that would benefit by eliminating Corel, and lots of folks (mostly in Canada) that want to see Cowpland get his 'comeuppance'. They all seem to 'smell blood' now. The next few months will probably be like the proverbial 'interesting times'. I'm buying more shares though ... I think it will work out well in the long run.

To: JC Jaros who wrote (9027)	5/14/2000 3:47:00 PM
From: BrownBag	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9798

"I mean it is best from the standpoint of a local user seeking a simple desktop OS interface" I always assumed that the desktop OS interface was things like KDE and GNOME. However, this message is about your questions of IBM supporting Corel. The initial versions of the IBM DB2 developers tools and DBI only ran on RedHat. VisualAge is better. This is from the IBM webpage for the newest version of VisualAge. "This edition of VisualAge for Java, has the following hardware and software prerequisites: * Linux - RedHat 6.0, Caldera 2.2, SuSE 6.1 (glibc 2.1 and kernel 2.2.x)" The URL is www7.software.ibm.com I tried installing on Corel Linux, and it crashed. Although there are many good tools that work on most if not all Linux's, there is obviously special coding needed for parts of different ports. RedHat is always supported near the top of the heap. If Corel gains market share, it may be there as well one day.