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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Corel Buys Word Perfect!
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 21:05:44 GMT
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- Alan Bell (jkq935@freenet.mb.ca) wrote:
- : For those of you who haven't heard, The Canadian software co. Corel, bought
- : Word Perfect from Novell this week. I don't have the article with me
- : now, but a spokesperson for the co. said that they realized they'd have to
- : do a lot of work to recapture marketshare lost to Word. Perhaps if they
- : realized there's a whole platform, the Amiga, that's been waiting for a
- : new version for years, that they'll get the ball rolling. After a quick
- : search, I think I found the appropriate URL to send it to.
-
- They have even dropped their OS/2 support. OS/2 sold 1 *million* copies
- in December 1995 alone, and the market is more than 12 million.
-
- Considering that they dropped OS/2, what makes you think they'd even look
- at the Amiga? I am very sad that Corel got the products.
-