Corel To Test WordPerfect For Linux

Posted by simoniker on Friday April 2, 2004 @12:18AM from the we-have-a-corel-icon dept.

prostoalex writes "CNET News says Corel will introduce a native Linux version of its WordPerfect Office product on April 15th . This will be a pilot project, as Corel executives want to find out whether it's worth competing with the other products (namely StarOffice and OpenOffice)." The piece mentions: "Corel previously produced a Linux-native version of WordPerfect 8, released in 1998, and offered a Linux-translated version of WordPerfect 9 in 2000, when Linux was still a cornerstone of the company's broader strategy."

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Re:Lets hope Corel doesn't screw this up. by online-shopper · 2004-04-02 03:12 · Score: 0, Flamebait

That's because most companies don't realize that once they have a port to Linux/x86, extending that to Linux/PPC should be a pretty trivial thing(especially if its an application and not a driver). If they had the foresight to opensource their games when the usefulness of them died(ala ID) then they would find that ports would pop up all over the place, and not only to Linux/ but to MacOS, and the BSDs