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To: Leo Mitkievicz who wrote (4128)	12/29/1997 12:34:00 PM
From: A. Reader	Respond to of 9798

At last month's Kona announcement, Jeff Papows, president of Lotus Development Corp., spoke with CRN Executive Editor Barbara Darrow and Assistant Editor Lee Pender about the company's latest technology and industry trends. "We've got a model here that's very different from what Corel did. This was a clean sheet of paper, re-architected from the ground up. Remember, we've been working on this for about 26 months. . . . It has taken longer than we expected. The honest truth is we expected to be out in October and we'll be out in January." techweb.com

To: Leo Mitkievicz who wrote (4128)	12/29/1997 7:23:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

That was an excellent account of Corel's failings ... if looks like it came out of a project management textbook describing how _not_ to do a project. It was clear from the start that from upper levels down there was no clear consensus what was being implemented. Applix more cautiously approached the Java-migration and chose the correct model (client/server) and migration plan - gradual Java migration. Java was in it's infancy (prior to JDK 1.1 + JFC) and Corel should have realized that a pilot project or gradual migration was the way to go ... not betting the farm on a complete re-write of their entire office products in a new language. Cheers James