Earlier quoted context omitted.
Corel still maintains WordPerfect too, last release was 7 months ago
WPS Office seems to have cornered the market for MS Office alternatives, i.e. WPS runs in Linux, Wordperfect doesn't.
citations?
Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
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Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#32Earlier 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 :) ).
Vector Capital took them private in 2008 at $4.00 a share. Odd that nobody has historical charts, I can't find it either.
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#33I just started using a Mac this year, and I need to run Linux and Windows for testing reasons. I'm starting to do more freelance work now, so I'll have some Windows-focused work as well. Right now I have separate machines for each OS, but I'd like to just use a Mac and get rid of my other machines. I've played with Virtualbox, but I haven't used Parallels or VMWare. Does this acquisition make Parallels any more or le…
I just skimmed through https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18723936 and there were multiple comments about pros and cons of your different choices for Mac.
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
WPS Office seems to have cornered the market for MS Office alternatives, i.e. WPS runs in Linux, Wordperfect doesn't.
citations?
Yes, WordPerfect has supported them for many years.
https://support.corel.com/hc/en-us/articles/215963808-How-to...
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#35I just started using a Mac this year, and I need to run Linux and Windows for testing reasons. I'm starting to do more freelance work now, so I'll have some Windows-focused work as well. Right now I have separate machines for each OS, but I'd like to just use a Mac and get rid of my other machines. I've played with Virtualbox, but I haven't used Parallels or VMWare. Does this acquisition make Parallels any more or le…
I use VirtualBox myself.
I started out using Parallels at first, but can't see having to continually pay to upgrade, especially when I'm mainly using Linux images although I do run a copy of Windows periodically.
VirtualBox is free and supported by Oracle.
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#36Earlier 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 :) ).
Vector Capital took them private in 2008 at $4.00 a share. Odd that nobody has historical charts, I can't find it either.
Used to be COSFF ticker. I worked for Corel in Ottawa long while ago.
Not sure how to dig charts now.
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#37Corel still exists?! Good for them!
One of the first Linux distributions I tried (after the venerable Slackware) was the short-lived Corel Linux way back in 1999 or thereabouts.
I installed Corel Linux on the family computer when I was 13. It was my first Linux distribution. Someone from school got the disc out of a magazine if I remember correctly.
I couldn't get the modem to work and the installer didn't add a boot option for the Windows 98 partition (LILO bootloader), so my family was understandably pretty pissed off. I ended up figuring out how to restore the Windows MBR, and eventually figured out how to dual boot.
To this day, when I mention Corel Linux was my first Linux distribution people tend to think I'm confused since "Corel makes graphics software, not Linux distributions!"
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#38Corel still exists?! Good for them!
The first question that crossed my mind.
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#39Corel still exists?! Good for them!
I was always surprised their model of selling their older versions at a reduced rate (e.g. latest version $199, next older $100, one before that $49) never took off.
They always seemed so scrappy back in the 90s with their giant boxes and included libraries of clip art.
One of the more novelty twitter accounts I found recently posts images from one of their 10,000 item collections: https://twitter.com/clipart1994bot
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#40I just started using a Mac this year, and I need to run Linux and Windows for testing reasons. I'm starting to do more freelance work now, so I'll have some Windows-focused work as well. Right now I have separate machines for each OS, but I'd like to just use a Mac and get rid of my other machines. I've played with Virtualbox, but I haven't used Parallels or VMWare. Does this acquisition make Parallels any more or le…
I have and use both Parallels and VMWare Fusion on a Macbook Pro. Personally I prefer VMWare because I've run into less problems managing VMs with Fusion than I have with Parallels. In my experience Parallels updates are more likely to break compatibility with old VMs. I don't really use the "Linked Clones" snapshot feature of Parallels so VMWare's Snapshots work just fine for me too. I was pretty sure Parallels use to cost much more than VMWare for a single seat but a quick check shows that they're both about $80USD at the moment.