Interviewed at Corel a few years back. Surprised the company still exists given how dated the product line is.
Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
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Re: Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
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citations?
Yes, WordPerfect has supported them for many years. https://support.corel.com/hc/en-us/articles/215963808-How-to...
I think they're asking about the assertion that "WPS Office seems to have cornered the market for MS Office alternatives", which would be pretty surprising. Libreoffice, Google Docs, and iWork all exist, and all seem more popular.
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#64Corel bought my favorite photo editor ever. Never found a replacement (PhotoImpact). Just to discontinue it. I hate them!!
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#65Can someone with inside-knowledge (or just knows) explain how is Corel still in business?
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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?
For the most part, Corel seems to acquire software that are near their end of life and/or relevance.
IIRC, they kept Kai's Power Tools alive well past its usefulness.
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#68Corel still exists?! Good for them!
Amazing isn't it? I still prefer Corel Draw to the Inkscape or any of the Adobe products. I have their PowerDVD software on a laptop which is used as a portable DVD player for visiting nieces and nephews.
PowerDVD is CyberLink, you're probably thinking WinDVD (which apparently is still getting new updates).
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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.
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 -- which will be the document that is submitted to the court.
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It's been a long time since I've heard of an acquisition that was actually positive for the aquired/their users - can anyone working on any of these groups share such a story?
On the user side, Corel has been okay-ish with PaintShop Pro. I write Photoshop plugins and I still have lots of customers who are happy Paintshop Pro users, some 14 years after Corel acquired JASC. That said, Corel added a kind of adware to PSP, where it will display promotions for upgrades to the new version of Paint Shop Pro even when you're not using the program. I really wish there was an easy way to disable it,…
I loved PSP under Jasc, after I think XII after the Corel buyout, I gave up on the product... Paint.Net or Gimp (painfully) give me the little utility I usually need. I really do miss PSP, but I think 9 was the last really good version, and I don't have a key or media for it anymore.
It sounds like it's gotten a little worse.