Corel Linux first launched in 1999, from the same company that at the time owned the WordPerfect word processing software. While it was made to compete with Microsoft's Windows it quickly died off.
I remember Corel Linux. It offered one of the nicest Linux desktop experiences at the time. If you wanted WordPerfect, it was also a great deal.
Leveraging your word processing market share to establish an OS presence is the opposite of what Microsoft did.
What is amazing about Corel these days is the museum of once market leading software that they still somehow sell. In addition to WordPerfect, who is using Quattro Pro ( spreadsheet ) or Paradox ( database ) these days? Who ever used their Presentation software?
For that matter, who is using CorelDRAW? It was right up there with PhotoShop at one point but you never hear about it anymore.
Like Nortel and Blackberry, it seems like Canada is able to grow massively successful tech companies but it just cannot hold on to them.
CorelDRAW is still in use. It’s vector graphics, it wasn’t competing with Photoshop. But there are also lots of good alternatives nowadays, which is why you hear less of it.
Since you mentioned it (paradox) there was a small outfit that build a wonderful dbase(4,5) oriented db manipulation suite that run straight on DOS (5 5.1) and it would run circles around anything available for win3.1… etc.
It was called Alpha
Those win based spreadsheet/db programs had to draw the entire data set in gfx mode which took for ever by machines of the time if you worked with large datasets. I miss it and whish something like it was available as tui/cli
I remember Corel Linux. It offered one of the nicest Linux desktop experiences at the time. If you wanted WordPerfect, it was also a great deal.
Leveraging your word processing market share to establish an OS presence is the opposite of what Microsoft did.
What is amazing about Corel these days is the museum of once market leading software that they still somehow sell. In addition to WordPerfect, who is using Quattro Pro ( spreadsheet ) or Paradox ( database ) these days? Who ever used their Presentation software?
For that matter, who is using CorelDRAW? It was right up there with PhotoShop at one point but you never hear about it anymore.
Like Nortel and Blackberry, it seems like Canada is able to grow massively successful tech companies but it just cannot hold on to them.
CorelDRAW is still in use. It’s vector graphics, it wasn’t competing with Photoshop. But there are also lots of good alternatives nowadays, which is why you hear less of it.
They’re talented in nostalgic acquisitions.
They got WinZip, ulead video studio, intervideo winDVD, Roxio toast, Pinnacle video editor, Bryce, Ventura Publisher.
Since you mentioned it (paradox) there was a small outfit that build a wonderful dbase(4,5) oriented db manipulation suite that run straight on DOS (5 5.1) and it would run circles around anything available for win3.1… etc.
It was called Alpha
Those win based spreadsheet/db programs had to draw the entire data set in gfx mode which took for ever by machines of the time if you worked with large datasets. I miss it and whish something like it was available as tui/cli
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