Corel Ousted From Public Life?

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.

Comments

Re:Sad to see it finally go

[cant_get_a_good_nick]

and viola, it opens.
I usually open mine with a cello...

Re:Corel

[Drakonian]

My foot. "Upper mid-level managers" (oxymoron) sit around on Slashdot posting stuff like this?

Re:Corel

[Theolojin]

As an upper mid-level management member of corel

and ...we set about the massive undertaking of synnergizing

and ...escalating the sales curves

i think i see the problem with corel.

Re:Corel

[PetoskeyGuy]

However, it's too late. Enough WordPerfect code has been stolen for the OSS project, Open Office, that there's no way to put the genie back in the bottle and profit from our hard earned IP.

You could SCO them. Assuming of course you can prove the code was stolen.

BTW, nice job on the big words. That seems to be what middle management is all about. Translating reality to the CEO's in a language they understand. Your synnergizing product lines and escalating sales curves. So I guess you tried to SELL SOFTWARE and MAKE MONEY.

A bunch of guys in suits who havent had a product in a decade will sit around wondering why they arent making any money

This really shows you can talk to your underlings too. You must be very good to survive as a middle manager of any type for 10 years. They always seem to be the first to go around here.