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To: A. Reader who wrote (561)	4/19/1998 9:38:00 AM
From: A. Reader	Respond to of 1094

A goal behind the company's overall Java game plan is "to prevent Microsoft [Corp.] from gaining an office suite monopoly despite their anticompetitive practices," Cowpland said, "such as forcing PC manufacturers to bundle Word. Our goal is to prevent them from having anywhere near the monopoly in applications that they have in Windows." His comments came during a keynote address at last month's Federal Office Systems Exposition in Washington. One way it hopes to scratch away market share from Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft on the suites side is by bundling Dragon Systems Inc.'s voice-recognition software into the next version of its suite, which will be available next month, he said. techweb.com

To: A. Reader who wrote (561)	4/19/1998 9:40:00 AM
From: A. Reader	Respond to of 1094

Desktop Applications -- Microsoft Dominates A Market That Keeps Chugging Along, Despite Lack Of New Technologies Or Purchasing Trends ...No. 8 Corel Corp., Ottawa, struggled financially and failed to gather mainstream momentum for its WordPerfect suite. Web plug-in vendor Macromedia Inc., San Francisco, No. 9, was also among the losers in desktop applications. Its revenue was down 23 percent to $96 million. SIDEBAR -- Winners' Circle -Microsoft's Office 97 contributes to a 29 percent growth rate and revenue of $6.2-billion. -Adobe capitalizes on the popularity of the Internet and increases revenue to $716-million, a growth of 21 percent. -Lotus teams with Oracle, Netscape and Sun to develop alternative operating platform to Windows. -Apple restructures and renames Claris, which is now called FileMaker. techweb.com

To: A. Reader who wrote (561)	4/19/1998 9:42:00 AM
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...In percentage terms, Spyglass Inc., Naperville, Ill., led the industry in R&D spending, allocating 64 percent of revenue, or $13.6 million, for product development. That was almost double the allocation by runner-up Borland International Inc., Scotts Valley, Calif., which spent 36 percent of revenue on R&D, and Corel Corp., Ottawa, the No. 3 spender, which earmarked 34 percent of its revenue for R&D. techweb.com

To: A. Reader who wrote (561)	4/19/1998 9:43:00 AM
From: A. Reader	Respond to of 1094

Suite To Suite Corel Corp. recently released Service Pack 3 for its WordPerfect Suite 8, and this one certainly is a whopper: It addresses more than 80 bugs, enhancements and new features. Ironically, some of the most significant features have to do with that other suite-namely, new import/export filters for Microsoft's Office 97. There's also better compatibility with IE 4.0 Active Desktop, fixes for Windows NT-specific issues and enhanced SGML support. You can get the 12MB patch file and detailed information on what it fixes from Corel's Web site at corel.com.

To: A. Reader who wrote (561)	4/19/1998 9:44:00 AM
From: A. Reader	Respond to of 1094

CorelDraw 8 suite to hit Macs in June Corel said Version 8 for the Mac will match the Windows suite for the first time. zdnet.com

To: A. Reader who wrote (561)	4/19/1998 9:47:00 AM
From: A. Reader	Respond to of 1094

Well this is nice. Congratulations Joanne. Is there an online version anywhere? Top honour of the evening goes to Joanne Chianello of the Ottawa Citizen who was chosen the Business Writer of the Year by the independent panel of judges for, ''Cowpland's Hard Drive.'' Her article, which first won in the Daily Newspapers category and then was chosen as the overall winner, chronicles the rise of Michael Cowpland from childhood to CEO of Corel and highlights his involvement in the high-tech industry. newspage.com