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To: Steve who wrote (5631)	10/2/1998 5:40:00 PM
From: Guaranteed	Respond to of 9798

Steve; there are still a lot of people around here who can't cope with the fact that their bete noire is no more. There are also a few who were cheering vultures .They are now thinking about crow(16% higher in dietary fibre today, by the way ).

To: Steve who wrote (5631)	10/3/1998 9:20:00 AM
From: Offshore	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9798

Interesting. Philip and Steve are on this SI board just for things Mike has an interest in. OK Mike, and Mrs. Mike. Here's the scoop. I saw you within the last 30 days. Didn't shake your hand though. Probably would have as I respect you ability to keep kicking when it looks like you're out. I am assuming Philip is your wife. She has that unique writing ability that tells me she likes to be on top. I am very familiar with the top executives at Corel and not one of them would make such a comment. Of course you are. You're sleeping with one..(or more). Your "executive" was also there. We met. Smart guy. I was thinking about offering him/her a job. Didn't offer though. End of that part of the story, as it is fact, and I have his/her card. Sorry to tell you but he said "we need a good quarter or two as Mike is on the ropes"....and "this will be a good quarter for Mike".....which makes me concerned how these numbers were arrived at. I am concerned that the numbers are not what they appear to be. This is me guessing. Not someone saying this. We'll know in 2 more qtrs. if my "prediction" is correct. Next issue I know for a fact feature lists and direction for WordPerfect 10 are already being drawn. Are you a complete idiot? This is the direction and feature list as drawn up by marketing. 1: Direction...Make the product lighter, faster, work in Linux, cheaper and improve overall touch and feel. (duh?) 2: Features...Telepathic input so no keyboard will be used, allow 50 billion colors to jump to printers in various offices, simultaneously, without any network connection. Both are BS. Any idiot, even you, can make one up! What did you do? Walk down the hall at Corel and see it on a white board? Idiot. I do these for a living, except mine are real, have target dates, and have a staff working on them. By the way, this will not be the last release, it will just be the last release that the company actually puts any hope in, as with Office 2000, even your internal staff know you are history on WP. Don't tell me otherwise either. I'm right. You're wrong. ..you whiteboard reader you. You said...Oracle buy Corel, your way out! They especially wouldn't do it just to piss of Gates. I said the following. ...and compete more closely with Bill in the fledgling Linux marketplace Bite me. I prefaced it with "my prediction is..." and I stated that as that is what it is...mine. I believe MS will only port their code to Linux if/when someone with brains, balls and money jumps into it with other solutions. That person is Larry. He has an ego bigger than Bill. I am sure you've read in the past week about the Linux OS announcements. This is a very real threat to MS. NT does not scale. Citrix is too slow, and Terminal Server (Citrix minus 80%) cannot even connect on a direct modem without RAS. Oracle stock is doing well, Corel can be bought for "fun money", and he has been proven to make decisions to do things based on a whim....even to back off later. Trouble is, at this price, the free press on it alone that would be worth the price. Larry would be the undisputed king alternative to Bill. He would have more scaleable apps. (Oracle is becoming a solution company in case you hadn't noticed), he would have alternative hardware to operate on, (NC's and Linux boxes), he would have low end apps, (WP and Corel), he would have an alternative and truly scalable OS in Linux, (watch them buy a Linux OS company for Cheap, or Oracle will get behind one of the Linux vendors...big time!) In order for Linux to take off, everyone must rally around one version, so that the people on the street who make purchasing decisions have name recognition of one version of Linux...and not one that has "extra" features from a company they've never heard of. That doesn't mean that the modifiable version of Linux will disappear...it just means that one company must evolve as the king distributor of it, and support house for it. I had a webserver with NT. Crashed every two weeks for one reason or another. Put in Linux last year...never gone down EVER! Jbridge is good technology, but it is not a core product to Corel. It cannot be successful with them selling it. Unless you can back up your gossip with names, times and places, everything you say is no better than most of the diarrhea spewed on this thread Now, other that showing you my plane ticket, and giving you a copy of the hand written business card by your "top dog", you can bite me for your back it up request. PS: My bicycle shop is everywhere. My market value will exceed yours shortly. Certainly don't have to justify anything to you, as your market value has tanked twenty fold. Mine is up many fold in 16 months. The amount I lost in Corel is negligible compared to the fun I had watching it tank, and getting slammed by friends and foes whom I told that it would skyrocket.