Corel Investors Approve Takeover
News Corel is most widely known for its graphics applications, including the long-running CorelDraw line, and for WordPerfect, the word processing and related office software the company acquired from Novell in 1996.
[August 21, 2003, 11:40]
Corel To Beef Up Corporate Focus
News We're getting back the sales force Novell destroyed," said Paul King, VP international sales at Corel, referring to Novell's mismanagement of WordPerfect, which it acquired and largely sold to the Canadian firm in short order.
[March 13, 1998, 10:01]
Comdex: Corel Says Still Full-speed Ahead On Linux
News Burney is making the rounds at Comdex Fall 2000 here this week, showing off a beta version of the company's next-generation desktop office suite for Windows, officially renamed WordPerfect Office 2002, and attempting to spread the word that...
[November 14, 2000, 15:46]
Corel Targets Microsoft Customers
News The Canadian company, whose fortunes have zigzagged in recent years after a tough fight for financial survival, is offering businesses a free one-year trial of its WordPerfect word processing application.
[August 2, 2002, 9:58]
Microsoft .Net For Linux?
News Microsoft covenants to Corel that neither Microsoft nor any of its Affiliates shall sue Corel based on any claim that current or past versions of Corel Office Professional or Corel WordPerfect Suite (and successor Corel WordPerfect office...
[October 13, 2000, 9:25]
Corel Dips Into Asia-Pacific Inkwell
News Corel's stable of enterprise software includes business diagram creator iGrafx Flowcharter 2003, XML content creation and distribution tool XMetaL, as well as the once dominant WordPerfect word-processing application.
[September 27, 2002, 15:39]
Corel Knocks Microsoft Off HP Desktops
News The Productivity Pack is a "productivity suite," similar to Microsoft's Office, that includes the WordPerfect word processing application and the Quattro Pro spreadsheet program. The retail version of the WordPerfect suite sells for about $100 less...
[August 27, 2002, 9:10]
Corel Puts Eye-popping Low Prices On Suites
News The Canadian upstart said today that the official pricing for WordPerfect Suite 8 will be £299 + VAT for the full product and £149 + VAT upgrade. Corel is aiming to give Microsoft a black eye by releasing a new version of its WordPerfect suite for...
[June 10, 1997, 14:34]
Corel Aims For Enterprise With Java Groupware
News ORB will run Windows, Macintosh and Unix applications but Corel will optimise its WordPerfect, Paradox, Quattro Pro and Presentations to enhance performance. CEO and chairman Michael Cowpland said the Canadian firm is moving into "phase two" of its...
[August 19, 1997, 16:24]
Microsoft Bails Out Rival Corel
News Corel's WordPerfect desktop suite runs on a variety of operating systems, including Linux. Corel, which was best known for its WordPerfect and CorelDraw graphics software until last year's leap into the Linux market, has been grappling with a cash...
[October 3, 2000, 8:15]
Corel Adds Office Support To Latest Graphics Suite
News The company subsequently laid off 18 percent of its already reduced staff, saying it would concentrate on key products such as CorelDraw and WordPerfect. In December, the Canadian company announced it would not be producing any new versions of its...
[January 14, 2004, 12:50]
Corel Begins XML Push
News Corel will embed XML functions into familiar authoring environments such as Graphics Studio and WordPerfect, allowing ordinary software users to tap into the benefits of XML applications. Canadian software maker Corel announced two new XML tools on...
[December 11, 2002, 6:36]
Corel Pushes XML Integration In New WordPerfect
News Canadian software maker Corel on Wednesday announced it will release the newest version of its flagship office suite, WordPerfect Office 11, in late April. Corel said it has redone Extensible Markup Language (XML) integration in WordPerfect Office...
[March 6, 2003, 9:33]
Sony Dumps MS Office For StarOffice
News Canadian software maker Corel was the first to make recent headway against Microsoft in the market, announcing deals earlier this year to put its WordPerfect software on PCs made by Hewlett-Packard, the North American arm of Sony and others.
[December 6, 2002, 7:24]
