Hello Darryl,
zaterdag 06 december 1997 22.50, Darryl Gregorash wrote to Roland Stiner:
 DG> Look, let's be realistic. Between them, WPCorp and Novell managed to
 DG> take the word processor with over 70 per cent of the worldwide
 DG> installed base, and reduce it virtually to nothing. Corel has paid a
 DG> great deal of money to say they have faith in it.
Yep, they got stuck on Windows. Their mistake. They had to know Bill Gates
wouldn't never would allow any fair competiton on "his own" platform.
 DG> Corel *could* expend a great deal of time and money learning all of
 DG> the code for previous versions of WP, and then support those versions.
 DG> Where would that get them? It would get them support for a bunch of
 DG> obsolete software packages for which there is less than zero
 DG> possibility of revenue.
Maybe it would have been  their best bet. As I said before, Bill Gates will
never allow any competition. So, on spending money on a Windows suite 8, 9, 
10,
11 or whatsoever, they sure are moving to a bankrupt.
And, BTW, if they aren't prepared to learn some "old" code, why should their
costumers have to spent their valuable time on learning new tricks?
Costumers tend to be conservative, you know? The WP Corporation was aware of
that, Novell did forget completely about this.
 DG> faithful 5.x users out there?
Lot's of them. I presume, even more than Word x.x users.
 DG> You should have been in here when 6.0
 DG> was first released by WPCorp; it was one long litany of woe and
 DG> terror.)
I was there too. Agreed, WP6.0 Dos & WP6.0A Dos gave some horrible events. 
ut
_everething_ was fixed  in WP6.0b. And it was still WordPerfect
Corporation, at that time.
 DG> It makes far more sense for Corel to put all its effort into cleaning
 DG> up the last public release of WP, then working on a new release, to
 DG> get back into the marketplace with a product that can go somewhere, a
 DG> product that is not a dead end, a product that, since it has a future,
 DG> will gain them revenue to continue the process.
As I said before, IMHO competition on Windows leads to the dead end. Bill
Gates NEVER will allow any fair competition.
 DG> The alternative is 2 or 3 more years of obsolete and broken software
 DG> that hardly anyone wants; that would surely be the road to no WP at
 DG> all, if not the bankruptcy of Corel. What do you prefer to see?
Do you really know much people that want to buy a complete suite 8-9-10? 
aybe
you do, I don't know anyone. OS2 and Linux people do have enough to buy.
"Dummies" just buy a computer with some of BillyBoy's soft preinstalled.
Moreover, Lotus will bring out a complete native suite for OS2 in short time
(beta is there already, and looks good). Wich means on the OS2 platform Corel
will be wiped out eighter.
IMHO, the WP6.0b Dos is just about the best soft there is. WP6.2 Dos is 
like,
not much difference. The Dos platform should  still be their best bet. But 
they
have screwed up things completely, I am afraid. Don't like it at all, but's
that seems to be the awfull truth.
    Groeten uit Gent,
    Regards/2
      Kris
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