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Q&A: CEO Michael Cowpland On Drawing The New Corel
News Corel president and CEO Michael Cowpland is the power behind one of the sharpest software companies in the world. PCDN spoke to Cowpland on a flying visit to London. Revenues earned by the CorelDraw juggernaut are now taking the company in several...
[December 3, 1996, 15:32]
Q&A (3): Corel's Cowpland On Facing Up To MS
News I think so, they've got so powerful. We're natural allies with Sun and Netscape and we've got corporate resellers who've also been squeezed. Do you expect Microsoft to respond to your low pricing? Initially, they're ignoring us but it leaves us...
[December 3, 1996, 15:43]
Q&A (2): Corel's Cowpland Wants Java Everywhere
News The VNC is a [Motorola Power 821-based] 100MHz Pentium equivalent with 16Mb RAM. It's about the size of a paperback book and uses the same plastic as our camera so we haven't got any more tooling. It's a really neat design by Frog.
[December 3, 1996, 15:39]
Corel NC Due October
News Corel chief Michael Cowpland said today that the firm's long-waited NC boxes will be available from October. In London this morning, Cowpland, the UK-born CEO and president of the Canadian outfit, said that desktop NCs will be followed six weeks...
[August 11, 1997, 10:43]
Corel Chief Dismisses Crusoe
News Canadian software giant Corel has already dismissed the idea of developing software for the Crusoe family of microprocessors, according to president and CEO Michael Cowpland. The new chip, designed by Californian start-up Transmeta, is going to...
[February 25, 2000, 6:30]
Corel Aims For Enterprise With Java Groupware
News CEO and chairman Michael Cowpland said the Canadian firm is moving into "phase two" of its Java plans, renaming its Office for Java product CorelCentral and adding a communications hub to the product with universal inbox, the ability to assign and...
[August 19, 1997, 16:24]
Corel CEO Charged With Insider Dealing
News The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) also said it has charged Cowpland's personal holding company M.C.J.C. Cowpland, who has said he sold the shares to pay off personal loans, had maintained the investigation was routine and that he would be...
[October 15, 1999, 8:49]
News Burst: Corel CEO Charged With Insider Trading
News The Ontario Securities Commission also said it has charged Cowpland's personal holding company M.C.J.C. If found guilty, Cowpland could face up to two years in jail, a fine of up to $1m and/or payment of three times any profits made.
[October 15, 1999, 8:09]
WordPerfect Maker Cuts Staff By Fifth After Continued Losses
News President and Chief Executive Michael Cowpland said it was "the ideal time to consolidate," suggesting that after the company bought Wordperfect in 1996 it may have bitten off more than it could chew.
[June 25, 1998, 8:32]
The Day Ahead: Corel Tries Out New Buzzwords
News Perhaps sensing this Linux thing has played itself out on Wall Street, Cowpland felt obliged to talk about the next big thing for Corel -- nevermind that the most recent big thing hasn't even paid off yet.
[March 21, 2000, 11:50]
Quotes Of The Week, December 2-6
News Corel's Michael Cowpland on the software business. Corel's Cowpland on Java versus Windows-based machines. "In Germany and the UK we expect the [videoconferencing] market to double in units by end of 1997 in the business desktop area.
[December 6, 1996, 11:29]
The Big Interview: Sir Terry Matthews
News His first company in Canada was Mitel, co-founded with friend Mike Cowpland, but the enterprise floundered when the pair found that selling lawnmowers in the snowy Canadian winter was beyond them. Matthews and Cowpland bounced back from this...
[November 21, 2006, 9:48]
Corel CEO Sees Future Growth Potential
News With an improved cash position since Q4 1999, and profitable investments, Corel is positioned to fund future growth," said chief executive Michael Cowpland in a prepared release. At the time, Cowpland attributed the shortfall to problems with...
[March 21, 2000, 9:32]
Corel Sinks Deeper In The Red
News Cowpland's bullishness echoed what he said on Corel's first quarter conference call when he added that the company's turnaround was complete. Cowpland had this to say: While we are disappointed by the preliminary results, we are pleased that we are...
[December 23, 1999, 6:08]
Corel To Sell Its Linux Arm
News At Comdex/Fall in Las Vegas, Corel chief executive Derek Burney maintained that Corel was not abandoning Linux, even though Corel's original Linux champion, former chief executive Michael Cowpland, resigned from the company in August.
[December 15, 2000, 10:21]
The Week In Review
News It was also the week that Corel CEO Michael Cowpland blew into town. In an interview with PCDN Cowpland said Corel has shelved plans for a handheld but will push hard on its VNC video-enabled network computer and on anything with the word 'Java' in...
[December 6, 1996, 16:48]
Corel Plunges After Profit Warning
News While we are disappointed by the preliminary results, we are pleased that we are still able to deliver a profitable year," said Michael Cowpland, Corel CEO, in a press release. In a Reuters story 14 December, Cowpland had this to say: "There'll be...
[December 23, 1999, 10:49]
Corel Reaffirms Wine Commitment
News We're showing that Linux is ready for the desktop," said Corel chief executive, Michael Cowpland. Cowpland promises that Corel will continue to hire developers involved in projects like Wine, as well as allocate its own development resources to...
[March 24, 2000, 10:01]
The Day Ahead: Will Corel/Inprise Become A Real Linux Powerhouse?
News The guidance is typical of Cowpland -- overpromise and underdeliver. And, Cowpland boasted, Corel Linux was only on the market a few weeks. Cowpland then went on to say Linux would bring in about $20m in sales for 2000 and then just two breaths...
[February 8, 2000, 12:01]
The Day Ahead: A Few Suggestions For Corel's Board
News In fact, it was time for Cowpland to go a few years ago, but why nitpick. Cowpland's stamp is all over this puppy. Although Cowpland is off to be flamboyant on his own time, he has left a big mess behind.
[August 16, 2000, 12:16]
