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To: Crystal ball who wrote (9130)	5/19/2000 8:48:00 PM
From: Tom C	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9798

Exactly Ron, we are entering the M&A era of MARRIAGES OF CONVENIENCE, for economic survival, and not necessarily for love, Who's struggling that much or has had enough beers to make CORL look attractive enough that they will end up in Maryland just like a Doris Day and Cary Grant? and I have used the Wordperfect JAVA platform, its a standalone like the Wordperfect Linux that Corel has, My impression was that the JAVA WordPerfect effort was less then perfect. A "complete failure" comes to mind. in fact, I personally think that Corel could STAND ALONE, ...snip...snip really if Copland only realized that Wordperfect was worth more than the rest of their Draw stuff....but these guys get too focused, Copland is too focused? You are too funny. IMO the ingredients for success were there. It's lack of focus that's missing. takeover targets, like from INPR You mean takeover candidates like INPR? (I realy think Fuller would have takeover CORL and not Corel taking over INPR in the Inprise merger plan) and now from SUNW, JAVA MOTHER....of all. I don't buy that at all. Why would SUNW, with its own native Office suite care about CORL. They purchased FORTE last year, an enterprise Java high end (enterprise) development system. If they had not purchased FORTE it was rumored that INPR was the backup plan. My opinion is it won't happen unless the MSFT debacle/break up raises Corel If the break up goes as planed by the DOJ, the MS applications piece will be free to enter the application market that LINUX presents. How hard is that? Well, CORL is running ancient Windows code using an emulator that is not an emulator (WINE). How long would it take for MS Applications to do the same? and other LINUX plays to CORL about $25-$30, thats the price COREL control interests would want, and I think would get, and as far as SunMicro Systems is concerned, its all just stock anyway....welcome to the McNealy family. One problem with your reasoning, do you think that SUNW really cares about LINUX? A couple of Windoze programs that run on an emulator and you think the stock is worth $25-30? Your crystal ball is opaque. Tom edit: I forgot to say, grunt, grunt, grunt for JC.