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To: A. Reader who wrote (4155)	12/30/1997 11:30:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 9798

Kurt, you are right about that. They aren't acting like dead-meat and they can turn things around with new leadership. Cowpland has to be forced out and it should be a simple matter given his demonstrated lack of leadership. To be honest, he should not be in a management position at any level and certainly he has never demonstrated anything remotely close to an executive quality. I don't care if he want's to engage in wasteful, irresponsible spending but that doesn't extend to the public's money. People who can't focus, can't execute and can't grasp reality should not be running corporations. Kurt, all I hear from Cowpland is a failure to take responsiblity. Do you know why Lotus had their Big Bash in Ottawa? Because that ignorant man who doesn't understand the networking pardigm and probably can't spell Java is a public disgrace to the Java community. There are hundreds of companies successfully deploying Java technology and Corel's incompetency should be fixed, not used as a shield. This hiding behind Microsoft is getting really old. The guy has to go.

To: A. Reader who wrote (4155)	12/31/1997 12:23:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 9798

Kurt, a CD costs about $1.00 to print so why doesn't Corel slap WP on there for $2.00 and double their money? If customers want support they can pay for the $20 version and Corel makes 20 X it's original investment. What WP needs is relevancy and you achieve that with ubiquity. Once you have an established market revenue opportunities start beating a path to your door and Corel should look to Sun for a lesson on that. Netscape would be three or four times its current revenues had they given away Navigator from day one. If Corel wants more evidence of this successful approach they should talk to the Symantec Visual Cafe folks. They launched that compiler with two free tickets to Hawaii and sold it for less than a third the cost of Microsoft's offering. They now enjoy a substantial following. They need to be relevant in this space and right now Corel is anything but.