Corel's stance is irrelevant
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| r_a_trip Jan 27, 2006 7:41 AM EDT |
For some small holdouts Corel may still rule supreme, but in the end they are an over-reheated has been. In the grand scheme of things they are only relevant for legacy support in certain branches. What Corel thinks of ODF will not hamper adoption. The world is slowly getting tired of Microsoft and anybody kowtowing to the Redmond Behemoth will be thrown on the same heap of discontent. Keep touting proprietary, closed formats Corel and we can rest assured you will follow all the other progress hampering dinosaurs pretty soon. |
| steelbottom Jan 27, 2006 2:17 PM EDT |
"Keep touting proprietary, closed formats Corel and we can rest assured you will follow all the other progress hampering dinosaurs pretty soon." I agree. I think Corel has more to lose by not supporting OpenDocument. The same reasons that makes OpenDocument important for universality and archival purposes as opposed to the closed Microsoft formats would apply to Corel's proprietary WordPerfect Suite formats. If Corel not only adopted, but promoted OpenDocument as its primary document format, then Corel could market the fact that it uses a standards-based format that would never leave its customers out in the cold. Imagine if Corel ran a marketing campaign touting the safety and interoperability of OpenDocument standard documents as opposed to the fate of current Office formats (doc, xls, etc) in a few years after Microsoft only supports its proprietary XML format. If Corel doesn't do something to pull its products out of niche medical and legal markets it will sooner or later fade to oblivion. If Corel adopted an open standard format for its document formats it could possibly woo government agencies back into its fold, rather than losing this market to MS Office completely. Maybe, when Corel craps out totally because of their short-sightedness, someone will come along and buy the company to put a real competitor to Microsoft Office back into the picture. A competitor that accepts that open standards are the way back to a sizable market share. |
| rebamin Jan 29, 2006 6:46 PM EDT |
Didn't Microsoft buy a share of Corel some years ago? It's easy to see conspiracies everywhere... |
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