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- From: pjsmith@iastate.edu (Phil J Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Corel Buys Word Perfect!
- Date: 6 Feb 96 00:34:28 GMT
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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- In <Pine.SOL.3.91.960203222103.9829A-100000@winnie.freenet.mb.ca> Alan Bell <jkq935@freenet.mb.ca> writes:
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- >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.
- >
- >http://comment@corelnet.com
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- >If I'm wrong, & this doesn't work, *sorry!* Just do a word search with corel
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- >AlanBell@freenet.mb.ca
-
- I don't think so. The Amiga is a dead machine, just look at the lastest
- issues of Amazing, they sure have gotten thin. There is absolutely no
- way that Corel would even think about releasing a new version of
- WordPerfect for the Amiga. The original version couldn't sell (granted,
- it was slow and buggy) so why would they try again? It would be a waste
- of time and money for them to support the Amiga.
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- Phil Smith
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