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Corel Corp. Standardizes on Symantec Visual Cafe for Java Corel to Use Next Generation Symantec Visual Cafe for Java Tools as Primary Java Development Environment CUPERTINO, Calif., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Symantec Corporation (Nasdaq: SYMC) the leading provider of Java development environments today announced that Corel Corporation (Nasdaq: COSFF), a leader in advanced Java technology and development, has standardized on Visual Cafe for Java as their primary development environment for their Java development. By taking advantage of Symantec Visual Cafe for Java's award-winning, next generation Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment, Corel's developers will be able to finish their development projects in record time. Visual Cafe for Java provides integrated project management, source and visual editors, component libraries, incremental debugging and other tools, all with support for latest standards such as JDK 1.1 and JavaBeans. Addressing a wide range of development needs from easy to use, drag and drop visual form design to integrated support for third party version control systems, the Visual Cafe for Java product family is designed to meet the needs of both entry level and professional developers. "Symantec was the clear leader in our evaluation of Java development environments. Our testing has shown that Symantec's market dominant position is well justified and their proven track record of support for Java technologies and tools give us confidence moving forward," said Dr. Michael Cowpland, president and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation. "After extensive evaluation and testing of competing products, we selected Symantec's Visual Cafe for Java as the foundation of our development efforts." Corel's Java technologies include a project code named "Remagen" which allows Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) Suite or other business software to be run from a central server and accessed via a Java client.