“The Ottawa-based developer currently sells Corel Linux OS and
has announced the WordPerfect Office 2000 application suite for
Linux. It also will add open-source editions of its CorelDraw and
other applications this year, said Richard Soloman, VAR account
manager at Corel….”
“We’re making alliances will many hardware and software
manufacturers to ensure that this platform is successful,”
said Soloman. “We’ve gotten a lot of feedback from clients that
they want alternatives to [Microsoft Corp.’s] Windows. They want to
get on the Net, they want to get e-mail, and they want to do it in
minutes.”