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Corel Shuts Down Open Source Development Site

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-surprise-there dept.

evil_one writes: "The end is finally here for Corel, who released a Debian based linux distro a couple years ago (now owned by Xandros) Has announced that they are shutting down their Open Source Development web site as of March 1st. As many readers already know, Corel has helped the community on a huge scale, providing the Linux world with versions of Corel Draw and Corel WordPerfect. It's sad to see this, especially with the amount of work that Corel has put into Wine and their other projects, which include add-ons to KDE." Guess I can retire this topic icon ;)

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  1. No, you can't retire that icon just yet. by rlowe69 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Guess I can retire this topic icon ;)

    I know you're kidding, but Corel is still doing interesting things in the Unix community that the Slashdot crowd will probably be very interested in, particularly the port of .NET to FreeBSD, which is a very big deal. Don't write Corel off just yet. ;)

    DISCLAIMER: I work for Corel, but I do not speak on their behalf. My opinions are my own.

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  2. No, it's all because of no sales. by aussersterne · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm sure this had nothing to do with the $135 million investment from Microsoft Corp, not.....

    It doesn't. If you have called Corel to try to order any of ther Linux products, you will find that they are all "out of print" and are not available for purchase. If you ask why, you will be told that there was absolutely no demand -- not enough interest in the products even to justify keeping a few copies around for sale.

    Linux users just don't by software (except me, who bought WordPerfect Office for Linux and Corel Draw for Linux during the brief moment when they were available, and use them every day).

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  3. Re:Sales figures? by aussersterne · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Very poor. This is the reason for WordPerfect Office for Linux and Corel Draw for Linux being effectively pulled after the initial production run.

    To make matters worse, tech support needs for Linux products were greater, apparently because the few users they did manage to sell their Linux products to were "newbies" rather than Linux veterans, who don't seem to buy software at all.

    This info comes from my calling Corel's sales and tech support to inquire about the Linux products line in the process of writing an article.

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