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Ottawa Citizen: Give Corel time to exploit Linux: analyst

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 27, 1999

“The Ottawa company announced on Wednesday that it expects to
report a loss of about 14 cents U.S. a share on about $61 million
U.S. in revenues for the quarter ended Nov. 30. The official
release date for the actual numbers is Jan. 18….”

Amid concern that Corel is focusing too much on Linux, the
company’s president and chief executive, Michael Cowpland, stoked
speculation on that front after he was quoted saying that Corel’s
non-Linux products are becoming “less and less
significant….

“In terms of over-emphasis, it is a tendency of Cowpland to
focus on the newest area that they are entering and to talk up the
potential that’s there,” said Jean Orr, an analyst with Bluestone
Capital Partners LP in New York.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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