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Xara gives Adobe a run for its money

Posted by tadelste on · 4 comments
News&Observer; By Paul Gilster 		Mail this story
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Because I like small, gutsy companies that are willing to take on the big guys, a graphics outfit Xara caught my eye....But it goes toe to toe against Adobe Illustrator, the $500 heavyweight widely considered a standard. You compete against industry titans on two obvious levels, one of them being price. Xara Xtreme sells for $79 yet offers composition and editing tools that stand out in the rapidly growing vector graphics field. And if low price can improve its market share, Xara is getting more aggressive still with the announcement that it will convert its products to an open source format and make them freely available to Linux developers (a Mac OS X version also looms).

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Comments (4)

herzeleid ·
I was all ready to pull out the wallet - then I get to the website and it's all about microsoft, microsoft, microsoft.... bleh, nothing to see here....

I would be very interested however if the rumored Linux version ever comes to fruition.

jimf ·
Yes, we would all like to see a Linux version, but in the mean time the latest gimp has added color correction and a lot of other nice features.
jimf ·
Tks Anonymous, trying that right now :)

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