Topic: Corel Buys Out Corel

[sam]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/26/vector-capital-corel-corporation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)

[Rik]

I'd be sad to see them fail, I cut my teeth on Corel products.

[Simon]

I can't remember why, but I didn't like the later versions of Paint Shop Pro, especially after they removed Animation Shop, and made you buy it separately.

[Rik]

Bloat?

[Simon]

Probably.

[Clive]

Yes, I was heavily into Corel software too, particularly on my early machines. 

[Rik]

I'm only just retiring WordPerfect, Clive, as it doesn't like my latest printer. I still think it's a better WP than word, though.

[GillE]

PSP was originally a JASC product.  Corel bought them out a couple of years ago.

I must say, I do like CorelDraw.  The full version is very expensive but I got a 'lite' version with my graphics tablet and I love it for designing scroll saw patterns.  Inkscape is good but it doesn't compare to CorelDraw (and it keeps crashing on Vista machines).  I hope Corel survives.

[Rik]

Corel acquired most of their products, Gill, I think only Draw! was an original. I paid about £500 for it in the late 80s, but it was a tax deductible tool for me, and I earned a lot of money with it.

[Clive]

I'm only just retiring WordPerfect, Clive, as it doesn't like my latest printer. I still think it's a better WP than word, though.

I used to use the DOS version of WP on my old 286 machine at work.  An improvement on my AT for certain!  The database was DBase 4 and the spreadsheet was Lotus 123 (all DOS naturally).  The first Windows OS I had at work was NT on a 486.  

[Rik]

I had Windows 1, run time, on a 386SX (it might even have just been on a 286).

[Clive]

I had 3.1 on my 386SX at home.  Always miles ahead of what I was given at work.  But I downgraded to 3.0 for a while because I was using a version of Pagemaker for 3.0 and compatibility was an issue even back then!  My own favourite was Ami Pro 3. 

[Rik]

One of many that seemed to fall by the wayside, XyWrite and WordStar for example.

[Clive]

Never heard of XyWrite but I used Wordstar 2000 for a while.  I was always looking for the perfect WP and I found it with Ami Pro!  I managed to keep it through Win 95 and 98 but XP finished it off. 

[Rik]

XyWrite was favoured by technical writers as it could handle formulae etc very well.