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gagy writes "Ottawa's Corel Corp. has been showing signs of weakness in the past few years, and looks very likely to be bought out by Vector Corp, at which point it will become a privately held company. A Toronto Star story spells out the details of the deal, and takes a brief look at the history of Corel." We mentioned Corel's deal with Vector last month.

Mark Lipson wrote in to tell us that Michael Cowpland of Corel will give a speech about Commercial Software and Hardware in the Open Source Marketplace and a demo of the Quattro Pro spreadsheet running under Linux, at LinuxWorld on March 2, 9:30-10:15 AM. The speech will be webcast on Wednesday. In related news, Eugene Lacey wrote in with an article claiming that IBM is dissing Corel's Wine plans.

Samantha Bonsak would like to query you all on this issue: "I'm trying to find information reflecting the use of Linux within the corporate marketplace; who is using it and for what purpose. I've been hovering around the Slashdot site for a while and haven't seen any links or references regarding this. Can you point me in the right direction?" For the most part, I think that if Linux is being used in the average corporate workplace, then it is done so on the sly, but it would be interesting to know what other corporations are actively supporting Linux (aside from the usuals like IBM, Intel, Caldera, Corel and Netscape...) - Is there a way to get such information?