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Dropping GNU/Linux helps restore Corel profitability

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After six years of financial difficulties and reorganizations, Corel Corp. finally seems on track with promising first and second quarters in 2006 and a return to public trading. One of the first steps in this turnabout, according to Graham Brown, executive vice president of software development at Corel, was the jettisoning the company's products for GNU/Linux, WordPerfect for Linux and Corel Linux.

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Comments (2)

herzeleid ·
If corel was offering linux or any sort of linux related products anytime in this millenium, they hid it amazingly well.

I remember corel linux which was something of a precursor to distros like linspire, but that was a product based on the 2.0 kernel IIRC. I had used word perfect 8 for linux and liked it, but the eagerly anticipated corel office 2000 for linux turned out to be a sluggish kluge of a windoze app running under wine. That was the last gasp for corel as far as I can remember.

Didn't they get a big investment from microsoft around that time, and announce that they were getting out of the linux business? If so, what is the motivation for another announcement, years afterwards, when nobody even associates them with linux anymore?
jimf ·
Lol, MS 'get the facts' has run out of material ?

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