Corel still exists?! Good for them!
coreldraw is still the best vector program to interface with laser engravers.
Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
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Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#52Corel still exists?! Good for them!
These days it seems like basically acquire software companies. They own Winzip, Paintshop and Painter, for example.
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?
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#53I 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…
Bootcamp is the best option in my experience. I needed to run some very heavy Excel workbooks on my Macbook Pro a few years ago, Parallels was much slower than 64 Bit Office on Bootcamp, Mac Office was also slow, was then 32 bit and not fully file compatible. Macbook pro Bootcamp is the best Windows PC I’ve ever had - has been rock solid for 5 years. I remember Microsoft publishing some stats that Apple macbooks were…
Seconded. Parallels has some nice features, like being able to run windows apps in OSX, but it's noticeably slower than booting directly into windows. Plus parallels lets you run your bootcamp partition from OSX if you need to.
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#54Corel still exists?! Good for them!
Corel still maintains WordPerfect too, last release was 7 months ago
> 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.
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> VirtualBox is free and supported by Oracle. What people are learning, though, is that nothing from Oracle is ever really free, it's simply deferring time evaluating licensing terms and legal costs into the future.
For example, Oracle's interpretation of "personal use" in the VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation License (which applies to the Extension Pack) changed completely sometime in late 2016 / early 2017, without notice. Compare [1] with [2].
Before: "Personal use is when you install the product on one or more PCs yourself and you make use of it (or even your friend, sister and grandmother). It doesn't matter whether you just use it for fun or run your multi-million euro business with it." [1]
Now: "Personal Use and/or Educational Use expressly exclude any use of the Product for commercial purposes or to operate or run a business, organization, governmental organization, or educational institution." [2]
Oracle does track downloads and will make inquiries if they suspect commercial use.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20161108235524/https://www.virtu... [2] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#56Like Kaspersky, parallels is Russian software and on the list of "domestic" software by the Russian government. Parallels has been erasing references to its Russian roots since the hackergate began. Trying to avoid Kaspersky fate and escape sanctions and bans especially when US federal funding is involved? It is not clear who is buying what in this case.
Kind of hard to distance yourself from Russia when Parallels phones servers located in Moscow every time it launches.
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#57Like Kaspersky, parallels is Russian software and on the list of "domestic" software by the Russian government. Parallels has been erasing references to its Russian roots since the hackergate began. Trying to avoid Kaspersky fate and escape sanctions and bans especially when US federal funding is involved? It is not clear who is buying what in this case.
Just wait until the Americans figure out that JetBrains is basically soviet technology!
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#58Like Kaspersky, parallels is Russian software and on the list of "domestic" software by the Russian government. Parallels has been erasing references to its Russian roots since the hackergate began. Trying to avoid Kaspersky fate and escape sanctions and bans especially when US federal funding is involved? It is not clear who is buying what in this case.
Looks like Corel’s PE owner Vector Capital doing another tangentially related acquisition (jasc, winzip, intervideo, and Roxio are Corel’s other acquisitions under Vector) to bolster revenues, would be surprised if there was another more nefarious angle
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#59Earlier 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.
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…
Probably you had one of those ‘winmodem’ monstrosities that were prevalent at the time. I experienced similar problems.
Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
#60Corel still exists?! Good for them!
They are the Yahoo of software companies.