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- {subhead} Corel Announces Amiga support{def}
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- Corel Is Pleased To Be Chosen By Amiga To Supply Linux® Applications Corel
- and Amiga work closely to support new Amiga Operating Environment
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- Ottawa, Canada July 27, 1999 Corel Corporation (NASDAQ: CORL, TSE: COR)
- is pleased to announce that it has formed a new relationship with Amiga, to
- ensure that Corels award-winning software applications will be supported on
- Amigas new line of products that are scheduled to be released later this year.
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- Recently, Amiga announced that it has selected Linux® as the OS kernel for the
- new Amiga Operating Environment. Amiga is developing products and technology
- for current and future computing devices which are focused on making computers
- and the Internet a natural part of everyday life.
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- Corel is dedicating extensive resources to develop Linux, and the feedback
- from our customers has been tremendous, said Dr. Michael Cowpland, president
- and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation. Since December, our
- customers have made over 1 million download attempts for Corel WordPerfect 8
- for Linux. We are pleased to have the opportunity to bring our award-winning
- applications to an even wider audience and to further the growing popularity of
- Linux.
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- As Amiga approaches the release dates of the new Amiga Operating Environment
- and the Amiga MCC (Multimedia Convergence Computer), it will announce more
- details.
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- We are extremely excited about this new relationship with Corel and its
- entire product line, said Jim Collas, president and chief executive officer of
- Amiga. This ensures that our customers who purchase the new Amiga systems will
- have world-class personal productivity applications such as the upcoming
- WordPerfect Office for Linux.
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- Corel Corporation
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- Corel Corporation is an internationally recognized developer of award-winning
- graphics and business productivity applications. Development of market-leading
- products such as the CorelDRAW® line of graphics applications and the Corel®
- WordPerfect® Suite of business tools is continually evolving to meet the
- demands of the corporate, retail and academic markets. Committed to
- performance, compatibility, value and open standards, Corel develops products
- for the Windows®, Macintosh®, UNIX®, Linux® and Java platforms. Corels common
- stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol CORL and on the
- Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol COR. For more information visit Corels
- Web site at [{link http://www.corel.com}http://www.corel.com{end}].
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- Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW and the Go Further logo are trademarks or
- registered trademarks of Corel Corporation or Corel Corporation Limited. Linux
- is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of
- The Open Group. All other product names are trademarks of their respective
- companies. All other brands and products referenced herein are the trademarks
- or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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- Copyright © 1999 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of
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