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To: A. Reader who wrote (906)	1/22/1999 9:45:00 AM
From: Bill Keating	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1094

So our instincts were correct that from Corel's silence on Netwinder we could infer that it was just another expensive flop. Corel Video, Office for Java, jBridge, jSuite, Netwinder: a long line of products that they couldn't get to work or that no one wanted to buy. Returning to its core software products, Corel is now such a dull company that Cowpland will probably resign to start a new venture. That could be worth a point on the share price. Otherwise I don't see anything doing until after the upgrades are released and we see how they are accepted. Why don't they use their new Linux notoriety to sell some product that runs on Linux servers? They could buy or license some backup, network management or utility program, port it to Linux (if not already a Linux app), put a pretty face on it and do some hard marketing. Instead they are porting all their desktop applications to Linux. Guess Corel just is never going to be happy unless the are developing some product that doesn't have a market.

To: A. Reader who wrote (906)	1/25/1999 8:25:00 AM
From: A. Reader	Respond to of 1094

Cool products pop up at Showcase 99 ...Don't try to tell Corel Chief Executive Officer Michael Cowpland that the battle of desktop suites is over. Corel has big plans for the next release of its WordPerfect Office 2000 due out in May. In a preview, Cowpland showed impressive formatting capabilities in the suite's word processor. You can, for example, preview different fonts and column formats within a document without having to click to a preview screen. In addition to spreadsheet and presentation software, Corel will include Dragon Systems' speech recognition program and Trellix software that's designed to make long documents easier to navigate on the Web. cnn.com