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Technology Stocks : Corel Corp. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (6626)	5/14/1999 1:36:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 9798

Working Backward It's happening at IBM and Applix: analyze the workproduct and build that 10% of the software that addresses 96% plus of corporate needs. Microsoft's products are driven by marketing focus groups. Moreover, there is no Word for Business, rather, commonly used features in the generation of business documents are lumped in with several products for highly technical, often vertical markets. If companies thought they had a reliable, efficient, high-quality tool whose workproduct was equal to, if not superior, to that of word with little or no additional training, they could be convinced to dump the Microsoft bloatware. Java offers the best opportunity, unfortunately that takes skills that Corel has never had as a company that barely manages the task of stamping CDs and shrink-wrapping boxes. In terms of development, everything they've touched has been a disaster. For those who think Microsoft's products are bloated and brittle, wait until you get a hold of Corel's washed-up '80s acquisitions. In terms of Linux, it's an anathema, the very thing that Linux is trying to get away from. Corel has moved from failing at java and network computers to failing at Linux. These losers are now talking up a Linux GUI with worthless sound bites while several GUIs are already in production and shipping. There is essentially no chance of anybody writing software to run on Corel's GUI save Corel itself -- and they've demonstrated time and again that writing software is pretty much beyond them. They're better off keeping the shrink-wrap machines in working order and finding customers to give them a few pennies for their own bloated-up version of warmed-over '80s hackware. BTW, does anybody know whether Corel gets a penny per copy or would that buy you several?