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A quick look back at Corel Linux OS, another attempt to make a competing Windows-like OS (www.neowin.net)

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Anyone else remember Corel Linux?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

They're talented in nostalgic acquisitions.

They got WinZip, ulead video studio, intervideo winDVD, Roxio toast, Pinnacle video editor, Bryce, Ventura Publisher.