Corel still exists?! Good for them!
Came here to say this
Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
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Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#82Corel still exists?! Good for them!
me too. i still have corel draw from late 90s
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#83Corel still exists?! Good for them!
It's been so long since I heard the name Corel that I recognized the name but not what they did?
The other day there was a post about Lotus Notes. Now this. I'm not sure I can handle all the nostalgia.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
These days it seems like basically acquire software companies. They own Winzip, Paintshop and Painter, for example.
It's where programs go to die. Corel today is what Computer Associates was twenty years ago.
Took the words right out of my stdin. Had I not caught your comment out of the corner of my eye, I was about to post word-for-word the same.
It worked for CA for a while, and then...it didn't? I'd have to go look up what happened to them, because they one day just weren't on my radar anymore.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
> WordPerfect lacks support for Unicode, which limits its usefulness in many markets outside North America and Western Europe. Oh my. I do know WP was popular in Law Offices long after Word had taken the market. Not sure if that is still the case.
The issue was (and probably still is) that MS Word paginates footnotes improperly. They can't change it because it will break backwards compatibility. This handed the legal market to WP. And because you can't reliably import/export the documents and get pagination to work, you often have legal firms using Word to do the initial preparation and then hand it over to a legal secretary to type the whole thing into WP --…
talk about efficiency
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#86Corel... Now that's a name I've not heard in a long, long time.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the first Linux distributions I tried (after the venerable Slackware) was the short-lived Corel Linux way back in 1999 or thereabouts.
The good old dot com days. I remember buying Corel stock at $6 and it popping to $32 in a few weeks (or was it a few months, I can't seem to find Corel listed as a public company now to check the price history) on the Linux hype, only to crash down soon after (got out at $8 :) ).
> stock at $6 and popping to $32 on the Linux hype
These words don't sound right.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
They own Winzip Some were shocked to learn Corel was still around, whereas I'm shocked to learn Winzip is still around. Especially since Windows finally got around to adding native zip64 support in what...XP SP3 I think it was?
Yeah, but Windows built-in ZIP support still blows a number of goats, which is why I use 7zip... and the latter is the real reason I'm gobsmacked that Winzip is still around. 7zip's not as pretty but it does support every archive format I've ever used or needed. EDIT: Even more shocking: they own both WordPerfect and Quattro Pro both of which are, apparently, still around. Absolutely stunned.
I've seen WordPerfect on the shelf at a brick and mortar Fry's Electronics somewhat recently -- within the last year, I swear. I definitely did a double-take.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
They own Winzip Some were shocked to learn Corel was still around, whereas I'm shocked to learn Winzip is still around. Especially since Windows finally got around to adding native zip64 support in what...XP SP3 I think it was?
Yeah, but Windows built-in ZIP support still blows a number of goats, which is why I use 7zip... and the latter is the real reason I'm gobsmacked that Winzip is still around. 7zip's not as pretty but it does support every archive format I've ever used or needed. EDIT: Even more shocking: they own both WordPerfect and Quattro Pro both of which are, apparently, still around. Absolutely stunned.
WordPerfect use to be favored my lawyers. This is a group that tends to stick to their tools. I dunno if their still using it but that's probably a pretty nice niche.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
The good old dot com days. I remember buying Corel stock at $6 and it popping to $32 in a few weeks (or was it a few months, I can't seem to find Corel listed as a public company now to check the price history) on the Linux hype, only to crash down soon after (got out at $8 :) ).
> stock at $6 and popping to $32 on the Linux hype These words don't sound right.
Hard to believe, but true. Wish I had a chart of the Corel stock price but from Wikipedia[1]:
"Corel Linux, also called Corel LinuxOS, was a Debian-based operating system made by Corel that began beta testing on September 21, 1999[1] and was released to the public on November 15, 1999." ... "Corel later discontinued the distribution, but did not remove the former Corel Open Source Development website until March 2002."
So at least I did not just dream it. Did you live through that era? It was very similar to the blockchain hype but lasted a bit longer.
Edit: Confirming the Linux hype:
"Red Hat's initial public offering was on August 11, 1999. A total of 6,000,000 shares were priced at $14 ($7 post-split) per share."[2]
On January 10th, 2000, four months later the price peaked at $140, which would have netted you one of the fastest 10 baggers in history. By July of 2001 it was under $4
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Linux [2]https://investors.redhat.com/ir-resources/investor-faqs/when...