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To: seabrass who wrote (6430)	3/28/1999 1:09:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 9798

I have a difficult time understanding how a company with so many brilliant software engineers and established Software products can't move ahead. You're talking about warmed-over legacy products from the late 80's. The entire community of DOS developers who moved to Windows are about the worst thing that could have ever happened to computing. It's why we're a decade behind. Now, if you take C, C++ and Java, they're all UNIX derived technologies, as is Windows NT for the most part, as is Linux. This is not a coincidence, most of the "brilliant" programmers are working with UNIX. I see no evidence of "brilliance" at Corel at all, only complete failure with new products and mediocre results in maintaining the legacy software. I don't think we have a level playing field, but Corel's products are inferior to Microsoft's no matter how you slice it. This is a game I see the losers playing all the time: they claim they have superior technology, in fact there's no evidence of that. Core's products are more of the same 80's bloatware without the polish that only Microsoft can afford to put on piles of spaghetti. I want to see Linux and Java thrive and prosper, it's too bad Corel had to pollute Linux with a port of their DOS-based crapware. We'll soon see IBM's office products on Linux, followed by Microsoft's.