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To: hdl who wrote (9517)	8/16/2000 9:12:34 AM
From: Rande Is	Respond to of 9798

Congrats to all on Cowpland's departure!! CorelDRAW Linux Released!! Corel Linux OS Second Edition Released!! All on the SAME DAY?? Stock sitting near its 52-week low? 5 million + shares of short interest? CNBC is on CORL when business news is read. Now there is every reason for short-sellers to finally cover for good. There are certainly challenges for this small company to overcome. . .but without Cowpland they finally have a fighting chance! Rande Is PS> Usually not this excited.

To: hdl who wrote (9517)	8/19/2000 1:46:35 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

My take on Cowpland's departure is that he destroyed the company and would rather not go down with the ship. It's that simple. He had those who aren't in the industry and reading industry rags into thinking he was a visionary, a characterization a few uninformed sychophants still use. Meanwhile every professional analyst and industry insider knew he was jumping on stale bandwagons just as they moved into public view: probably to pump the stock with buzzword compliant rhetoric. He had the vision to read the cover of PC Week and other sorted publications to see which wagons were worth jumping on: Video Conferencing, Network Computers, Java and now Linux. Again, not LEADING but just following a well-worn path led by companies who actually know what they are doing. Corel was basically a shrink-wrapping company. A publisher with some dwindling titles and a few programmers tinkering around with the look and feel. Anybody with any sense knows that.