Corel Retrenching On Linux, Office Software
Corel Retrenching On Linux, Office Software The embattled software vendor said it will focus mainly on its graphics tools as part of a restructuring that includes plans to spin off its Linux distribution business and to target WordPerfect sales at existing users. http://computerworld.com/cwi/story/0%2C1199%2CNAV47_STO56794_NLTos%2C00.html -- ----/ / _ Fred A. Miller ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Systems Administrator --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Cornell Univ. Press Services -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ fm@cupserv.org
On Wednesday 24 January 2001 14:06, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Corel Retrenching On Linux, Office Software
The embattled software vendor said it will focus mainly on its graphics tools as part of a restructuring that includes plans to spin off its Linux distribution business and to target WordPerfect sales at existing users.
Targeting existing WP users? They're dead meat. They just haven't fallen over yet. -- Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites- are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
Hi All & Jerry, who flame baited thusly.... <snip>
On Wednesday 24 January 2001 14:06, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Corel Retrenching On Linux, Office Software
The embattled software vendor said it will focus mainly on its graphics tools as part of a restructuring that includes plans to spin off its Linux distribution business and to target WordPerfect sales at existing users.
Targeting existing WP users? They're dead meat. They just haven't fallen over yet.
<snip> Bad Jerry. Bad! ;-) Observe, this WordPerfect user has a pulse & is therefore not dead. QED. I hope Corel make their next release in Q2 of WordPerfect Office 4 Tux, a tad more stable. While thier current version is usable, it is so in the same sense as a Borg OS, viz surprises unpleasently. Hence, I often use WordPerfect 8 for Tux, the commercial one. I also wished they would release the patch upgrade to 8.1, but they have not. Grrrrr.... *BFN* Greek Geek :-) Man who falls in vat of molten optical glass makes spectacle of self.
On Wednesday 24 January 2001 16:20, Greek Geek wrote:
Hi All & Jerry,
who flame baited thusly....
<snip>
On Wednesday 24 January 2001 14:06, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Corel Retrenching On Linux, Office Software
The embattled software vendor said it will focus mainly on its graphics tools as part of a restructuring that includes plans to spin off its Linux distribution business and to target WordPerfect sales at existing users.
Targeting existing WP users? They're dead meat. They just haven't fallen over yet.
<snip>
Bad Jerry. Bad! ;-)
Observe, this WordPerfect user has a pulse & is therefore not dead. QED.
I hope Corel make their next release in Q2 of WordPerfect Office 4 Tux, a tad more stable. While thier current version is usable, it is so in the same sense as a Borg OS, viz surprises unpleasently. Hence, I often use WordPerfect 8 for Tux, the commercial one. I also wished they would release the patch upgrade to 8.1, but they have not. Grrrrr....
*BFN*
Greek Geek :-)
"They're dead meat refers" to Corel, not WP users. Sorry, I should have written that sentence with more clearity. JLK
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