Dropping Linux Helped Restore Corel Profitability

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday July 1, 2006 @07:21PM from the dumping-the-penguin dept.

basotl writes "Newsforge is reporting that Corel attributes part of its financial comeback to dropping Corel Linux and its Linux office suite. Though they are not currently offering products for Linux, they are interested in prospect in the future." From the article: "Looking back, Brown describes the decision to drop Corel Linux as 'a successful strategy for Corel and an early step toward the refocusing of our business. At the time we knew that Corel's core focus was moving away from the operating system to concentrate more on our application offerings, and this would almost certainly have an impact on the level of service we could afford to customers and users of Corel Linux.' Nor, as a company struggling to regain profitability, was Corel inclined to try to develop the GNU/Linux market by continuing to support WordPerfect for Linux."

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Come again? by Rik+Sweeney · 2006-07-01 19:30 · Score: 5, Funny

There was a Corel Linux?

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WTF? by bky1701 · 2006-07-01 19:54 · Score: 5, Funny

We have a Corel icon?

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Oddly Enough... by timeOday · 2006-07-01 20:00 · Score: 4, Funny

...Corel dropping their Linux distro also improved the average quality of Linux distros! Everybody wins.
Re:Financial liability by Frankie70 · 2006-07-01 20:23 · Score: 2, Funny

Then again, GNU/Linux is expected to take over the world in 10 years, so who knows :)

That's what I heard 10 years ago. I think next Friday is the D-Day.
they cant compete by NynexNinja · 2006-07-03 03:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Hard to compete with "vi" editor?