Last Oct Microsoft and Corel signed a deal where Corel agreed to provide the staff to port portions of.net to Linux. Corel's recent quarterly report(10Q) shows that there was an amendment to the deal where they now have to port to FreeBSD vice Linux. They also can not use any open source software as part of their work.
11.1.4 Publicly Available Software. Corel has not, and will not in any manner: (i) create or purport to create any obligation on behalf of Microsoft, or (ii) grant or purport to grant any rights or immunities to any third party under Microsoft's intellectual property or proprietary rights. By way of example but not limitation of the foregoing, Corel shall not incorporate any "Publicly Available Software" in whole or in part into any part of the Port Deliverables, or use "Publicly Available Software" in whole or in part in the development of any part of the Port Deliverables in a fashion that may subject the Port Deliverables or the underlying.NET Framework in whole or in part to all or part of the license obligations of any such "Publicly Available Software". "Publicly Available Software" means any software that requires as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of such software that such software or other software incorporated into, derived from, or distributed with such software (a) be disclosed or distributed in source code form; (b) be licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; (c) include specified attributions, disclaimers or other notices, or that marketing materials related to such software include such attributions, disclaimers or other notices; or (d) be redistributable on a royalty free basis. Publicly Available Software includes, without limitation, software licensed or distributed under any of the following licenses or distribution models, or licenses or distribution models similar to any of the following: (r) GNU's General Public License (GPL) or Lesser/Library GPL (LGPL), (s) The Artistic License (e.g., PERL), (t) the Mozilla Public License, (u) the Netscape Public License, (v) the Berkeley software design (BSD) license including Free BSD or BSD-style license, (w) the Sun Community Source License (SCSL), (x) the Sun Industry Source License (SISL), (y) the Apache Server license, and (z) any software that is distributed under subsections (a), (b), (c) or (d) above. The licenses granted to Corel in this Agreement are expressly conditioned upon compliance with the provisions of Section 11.1 herein.
I agree that DD Cd-RWs could beat out DVD-RWs especially now we can record off TV tuner cards.
ATI just announced today that they are shipping the ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON PCI card which features 32 MB SDR memory, Personal Video
Recorder (PVR) technology, a stereo TV tuner, DVD playback with Dolby(R)
Digital 5.1 surround sound and video output. The graphics card offers video
editing enthusiasts the ability to capture and edit MPEG-2 video for creating
professional-looking home movies. Video CD creation - When combined with popular CD creation software
such as Roxio Easy CD Creator, you can create your own MPEG-compliant
Video CDs for playback on a consumer DVD (Digital Versatile Disc)
player.
BTW, Iomega just announced their10 and 20 gig Peerless storage system. It looks like the sucessor to their zip drives. It will be hard to beat CDs though since blank CDs are so cheap.
Currently about 60 percent of Office users work on either version 95 or 97, not the more recent Office 2000. In a strange move, the company has opted not to offer Office XP upgrades to version 95 licensees, which make up about 10 percent of Office users. They will have to pay full price.
There is an article in the Toronto Star Newspaper that points out how users disatified with MS Office may be driven to switch to an alternative and this is an opportunity for Corel. The new WordPerfect Office 10 (WPO X) has lots of new features and still runs on windows 95. ZDNet in a rare unbiased move actually just gave it a good review.
It is shipping now and seems to be selling well at Amazon where it it is currently #38 in sales with a 5 star buyer's rating.
Now everyone are not going to switch over night but Microsoft cancelling the subscriptions may be an indication that it is worried about messing this release up.
Ahh it is talk like that that reminds me of the days of IBM XT PCs. When the 20 mhz AT came out many said that no one needs that much processing power on a desk. The fact is that once the capability is there, someone will find a use for it. Holographic HDTV, sharing DVD movies or something. Wait 3 or 4 minutes for a 121 meg file? No damn it I want it right now.
...[Corel]They've turned their back on the Linux community and, in my opinion, betrayed
us...
How can you say Corel has turned their back on the Linux community? Their Distro was aimed at non-geek windows users and to that end introduced alot of people to Linux. They still have not sold their distro division and even if they do they have already said that they will keep 20% and help out the new company. Even after saying they were,thinking of spinning off CLOS, they released localised version in all the major european languages. They have Linux versions of WordPerfect Office 2K, Corel Draw and Photo-paint in a number of languages and they are committed to upgrading them even though they are not making alot of money off of them so far. They had paid programmers working on the WINE project and still host it on their servers. So while they make most of their money off Win/Mac applications, their committement to Linux is still strong.
Corel is often critisied here but they have really tried to help schools save money through their academic software program and through outright donations of Linux software to schools.
You have to give them some credit for trying to promote Linux even though it is not making them alot of money.
Kids take a long time to grow up and enter the workforce...ten years ago you would have been
screaming for your kid to learn WordStar or WordPerfect under DOS, and look how relevant experience
in those are now.
15 years ago I was using WordPerfect and today I am still using it. It may have changed from DOS to windows but I can still use the same keyboard commands and the file format has not changed since version 6. My kids use it at home and when I loaded Corel WP 9 for Linux they were able to use it right away since it was alsmost identical to the windows version.
One of the reasons that the original ST show had such a wide appeal was that the stories had something for everyone. Action for the kids, interesting stories/characters and social commentary. DS9 had all of this plus some real cool space battles on a grand scale. I hope they do a DS9 movie someday as those battles would look much better on the big screen.
Some of the comments I have heard is that it looks like an Alien or a toliet. Considering the stock price, the latter is probally more appropriate.
If you look at the three D version here it looks like a phallus. Maybe that is way Burney has his head in in hands vowing never to higher the Dogbert consulting company again?
23 Jan - Press conference shows new logo and not much else
25 Jan 01 - Cowpland Resigns from BOD
2 Feb - Q4 earnings
20 Feb - Microsoft asks for preferred shares to be converted to common shares that can be sold. They are also voting shares so if they do not sell them they have a greater say in Corel's business.
So it appears that Burney was going to announce the selling of the Linux division on 23 Jan but was stopped by the DoJ investigation. Cowpland sees the writing on the wall and bails out thus reducing his legal liability. Other possibilities were that he was disgusted with the Microsoft deal and the way the company was going or it was part of the deal that to get the financing Cowpland had to go within 6 months.
At least this explains the non announcement on 23 Feb but did Microsoft really spend $135 million just to get rid of Cowpland?
As an aside, I am hoping that Burney appoints a relative of Cdn prime Minister Jean Cretien or a high level Liberal crony as the new replacement director so that Corel can get some Canadian Govt contracts.
It is ironic that while the US Govt has ruled that Microsoft is a monopoly and has used illegal
practices to dominate the office suite market, the Canadian Govt only chose to investigate the anti competitive practice of Microsoft investing in Corel.
Why did they not investigate in 1996 when Corel bought WordPerfect and the Canadian Govt depts started to choose Microsoft over Corel even though WP has been the standard in Canada for 15 years previous? I think it is because Bill Davis, Barbara McDougall and some of the other Directors were all high ranking Conservative party supporters. Even Derek Burney's dad was a former PC party fund-raiser and advisor to Brian Mulroney. Since the Liberals are in power for at least the next 4 years, Corel should bite the bullet and cut their Conservative ties. A good start would be with a new Liberal Director.
...we can have a disk drive with yottabyte capacity (for a definition of lesser known si units, see http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html).
A yottabyte is 10 to the 24th power bytes or 2 to the 80th power bytes. I found it interesting how we have adopted the SI metric terms which are decimal based for information units which are binary based. It is all explained here http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
German highways (4.1 deaths per billion veh.-km) are safer than US highways
(5.3 deaths per billion veh.-km), notwithstanding the absence of speed limits on about 60% of all highways in
Germany (Cities are much more dangerous in terms of road safety).
The main reason there are less deaths on German highways then in North America is the greater proportion of limited access, divided highways. Moss fatalities occur in head on colissions. In the US and Canada death rates decrease as more devided hoghweays are built. There is an extensive superhighway system but the majority of secondary roads are two way traffic and these are where most of the deaths happen. You can have 1oo car pile ups on the freeway but few deaths.
How about a car that will not allow itself to be driven by a drunk driver or exceed the posted speed limit? We should continue to try to improve survivability but most accidents are from driver error. 42% are alcohol related. Only 200 people died last year from hitting an animal yet the animal rights groups are screaming for more fences and tunnels to protect the animals. A drunk driver is more likely to speed, go through red lights, hit pedestrians etc. The only safe car will be one where the driver is taken out of the loop or at least checked to see if they are impaired.
I am for anything that will stop the slaughter.
Here we are in 2001 and we still do not have a safe motor vehicle. Consider the resources that go into aviation safety compared to road safety. The number of aircraft accidents let alone fatalities are infinitesimal compared to the number of people who die on the highways. Traffic accidents kill 500,000 people each year worldwide and injure another 15 million according to the Red Cross. If the current trend continues, road crashes will be the third largest cause of
death and disability after clinical depression and heart disease by the year
2020, the Red Cross predicted. Traffic accidents ranked as the ninth biggest
killer in the world in 1990. In 1996 in the USA alone there were 6.3 million police reported vehicle accidents and over 40,000 fatalities. In 1997, 41,967 people died in highway crashes in America. This is the equivalent of a jet crash killing 115 people every single day.
99 out of every 100 people injured in the U.S. transportation system are injured in motor vehicle crashes: approximately 5-6
million every year. Despite this fact, highway safety accounts for only one percent of the budget of the U.S. Department of
Transportation.
Motor vehicle crashes cost society more than $150 billion every year in medical, rehabilitation and long-term care costs, lost
productivity, lost tax revenue, property damage and police, judicial and social service costs. The health care portion is
approximately $14 billion (of which Medicare and Medicaid pay $3.7 billion or almost 30 percent).
Motor vehicle crashes remain a major public health problem. They are the leading cause of death for Americans ages one to 34
and the leading cause of injury for all age groups. The numbers are so mind numbing that fatal accidents rarely get news coverage unless it involves more than 5 people yet it is news when an aircraft just skids off a runway and no one is hurt.
Why should we have cars that can go 200mph/320 kph when the maximum speed limit is 70/120?
Why are there places where the wearing of seatbelts is not mandatory?
Why do we confiscate a hunters weapon and take their truck for poaching a deer yet if they drive drunk and hurt someone they may just get off with a fine and a temporary suspension?
If you say you hate someone you can get 7 years in jail for the hate crime yet if you drive over them and kill them when drunk you might get as much as 2 years.
I say that we have to stop the highway slaughter and this proposal to limit speed is a good start. Something also has to be done about drinking and driving. In 1994 alcohol-related deaths were 16,900 or 42 percent of total traffic fatalities. Why not use technology to not allow drunk drivers to drive? Penalties don't work.
They still plan to spin off the Linux Distro but it will keep the Corel Linux Brand name and Corel will keep a 20% equity in the aquiring company.
Someone mentioned that they should just open source the whole thing but in fact they have. You can download the source code from their FTP site. I think the main reason they are getting out is that Debian did not like their changes and did not incorporate many( any?) into the new version. It must be expensive to have to repackage all those boxes every few months when a change happens.
BTW, Cowpland originaly planned to give CLOS away but it got so much advance hype that they started selling it and made $5 million in the first few months.
Since I don't throw anything away, I still have a copy of WP 4.2 for DOS. I used to run it on an XT with 2 360k floppies and no hard drive. Now you can fit the whole thing with speller and thesaurus on on 1.4 meg floppy and still have room for lots of files.
I remember that - Corel decided to harass/investigate DND because they felt that the contract should have
been awarded to them. Knowing some of the people who made that decision, I can safely say that the
decision was the right one. Microsoft showed up on time with a product that worked and fit the spec.
The spec format in question was powerpoint 4.0 which wordPerfect Office could handle but the competion was rigged against Corel from the start. Corel asked for more time as they had just aquired WP but Supply and Services said no. So Corel showed up for the demo. It all worked well on their laptop but the DND test machine did not have a crucial patch for windows. You can read all the details here
BTW it is ironic that Corel is selling off their Linux distro just as DND has started testing Corel Linux as a possible replacement desktop.
COREL exists because the Canadian government has used COREL products extensively over the
years. I don't have any exact figures on hand, but I can say with certainty that 80% of all of COREL's past
business has been with the Canadian Government.
Actually Corel's government business started declining seven years ago when the Liberals took over from Brian Mulroney's Conservatives(PCs). Cowpland was a big PC supporter as evidenced by their having a former PC cabinent minister and a former PC Ontario premier on the board of directors. Even the current CEO's father was a former Mulroney advisor. When the PCs lost the Liberals started giving contracts to Microsoft. In 1995, just after Corel bought WordPerfect, the Canadian military switched from WordPerfect to Microsoft(this is after having been standardized on WordPerfect for over 10 years). Revenue Canada did the same. Even though Corel sued RC and won some cash, RC still bought Microsoft. Now that the Liberals are in power for at least another 4 years would not expect this trend to reverse. The only exception to this is the external affair dept who have stayed with Corel so that all the embasseys would be using a Canadian product.
Most of Corel's business has been coming from the US govt, lawyers and universities. Only a tiny trickle of revenue comes from Canadian Govt depts.
Sounds like the story the Register has being following. Last year researchers at Keele University discovered a "three-dimensional" memory system. This, they thought, would enable 2.3 TB of data to be crammed on to a PC card sized device (details here) and it would cost about $70. They recently revised that (story here).
The latest figures are in the region of 10.8 TB for a device of that size - more than four times the original value.
According to Mike Downey, head of Cavendish Management Resource, which is handling the commercial issues associated with the
technology, the research also applies to DVD style storage media, "That figure has also been revised upwards: to 245GB on a single sided
device," he said.
It sounds like I should put off buying a new 20 gig HD.
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Indians were here first since they had reservations.
Slowly they turned, step by step.
From Corel's10Q:
11.1.4 Publicly Available Software. Corel has not, and will not in any manner: (i) create or purport to create any obligation on behalf of Microsoft, or (ii) grant or purport to grant any rights or immunities to any third party under Microsoft's intellectual property or proprietary rights. By way of example but not limitation of the foregoing, Corel shall not incorporate any "Publicly Available Software" in whole or in part into any part of the Port Deliverables, or use "Publicly Available Software" in whole or in part in the development of any part of the Port Deliverables in a fashion that may subject the Port Deliverables or the underlying .NET Framework in whole or in part to all or part of the license obligations of any such "Publicly Available Software". "Publicly Available Software" means any software that requires as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of such software that such software or other software incorporated into, derived from, or distributed with such software (a) be disclosed or distributed in source code form; (b) be licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; (c) include specified attributions, disclaimers or other notices, or that marketing materials related to such software include such attributions, disclaimers or other notices; or (d) be redistributable on a royalty free basis. Publicly Available Software includes, without limitation, software licensed or distributed under any of the following licenses or distribution models, or licenses or distribution models similar to any of the following: (r) GNU's General Public License (GPL) or Lesser/Library GPL (LGPL), (s) The Artistic License (e.g., PERL), (t) the Mozilla Public License, (u) the Netscape Public License, (v) the Berkeley software design (BSD) license including Free BSD or BSD-style license, (w) the Sun Community Source License (SCSL), (x) the Sun Industry Source License (SISL), (y) the Apache Server license, and (z) any software that is distributed under subsections (a), (b), (c) or (d) above. The licenses granted to Corel in this Agreement are expressly conditioned upon compliance with the provisions of Section 11.1 herein.
ATI just announced today that they are shipping the ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON PCI card which features 32 MB SDR memory, Personal Video Recorder (PVR) technology, a stereo TV tuner, DVD playback with Dolby(R) Digital 5.1 surround sound and video output. The graphics card offers video editing enthusiasts the ability to capture and edit MPEG-2 video for creating professional-looking home movies. Video CD creation - When combined with popular CD creation software such as Roxio Easy CD Creator, you can create your own MPEG-compliant Video CDs for playback on a consumer DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) player.
BTW, Iomega just announced their10 and 20 gig Peerless storage system. It looks like the sucessor to their zip drives. It will be hard to beat CDs though since blank CDs are so cheap.
There is an article in the Toronto Star Newspaper that points out how users disatified with MS Office may be driven to switch to an alternative and this is an opportunity for Corel. The new WordPerfect Office 10 (WPO X) has lots of new features and still runs on windows 95. ZDNet in a rare unbiased move actually just gave it a good review.
It is shipping now and seems to be selling well at Amazon where it it is currently #38 in sales with a 5 star buyer's rating.
Now everyone are not going to switch over night but Microsoft cancelling the subscriptions may be an indication that it is worried about messing this release up.
Ahh it is talk like that that reminds me of the days of IBM XT PCs. When the 20 mhz AT came out many said that no one needs that much processing power on a desk. The fact is that once the capability is there, someone will find a use for it. Holographic HDTV, sharing DVD movies or something. Wait 3 or 4 minutes for a 121 meg file? No damn it I want it right now.
How can you say Corel has turned their back on the Linux community? Their Distro was aimed at non-geek windows users and to that end introduced alot of people to Linux. They still have not sold their distro division and even if they do they have already said that they will keep 20% and help out the new company. Even after saying they were ,thinking of spinning off CLOS, they released localised version in all the major european languages. They have Linux versions of WordPerfect Office 2K, Corel Draw and Photo-paint in a number of languages and they are committed to upgrading them even though they are not making alot of money off of them so far. They had paid programmers working on the WINE project and still host it on their servers. So while they make most of their money off Win/Mac applications, their committement to Linux is still strong.
You have to give them some credit for trying to promote Linux even though it is not making them alot of money.
15 years ago I was using WordPerfect and today I am still using it. It may have changed from DOS to windows but I can still use the same keyboard commands and the file format has not changed since version 6. My kids use it at home and when I loaded Corel WP 9 for Linux they were able to use it right away since it was alsmost identical to the windows version.
Corel and Rebel have also donated a bunch of software and hardware to various schools systems in Mexico and South America.
Some of the comments I have heard is that it looks like an Alien or a toliet. Considering the stock price, the latter is probally more appropriate.
If you look at the three D version here it looks like a phallus. Maybe that is way Burney has his head in in hands vowing never to higher the Dogbert consulting company again?
15 Aug 00 Cowpland resigns as Pres/CEO Burney takes over as interim CEO and hires Dogbert consulting for study
27 Sep - Q3 announced
2 Oct - Corel/Microsoft alliance announced
3 Oct - Burney confirmed President/CEO
15 Dec - Corel responds to rumours that it has not sold Linux div but considering options
8 Jan - Corel announces restructuring press conference for 23 Jan
'early' Jan - Cdn Competition Bureau in Ottawa and US DoJ start probe of Corel/Microsoft deal
23 Jan - Press conference shows new logo and not much else
25 Jan 01 - Cowpland Resigns from BOD
2 Feb - Q4 earnings
20 Feb - Microsoft asks for preferred shares to be converted to common shares that can be sold. They are also voting shares so if they do not sell them they have a greater say in Corel's business.
So it appears that Burney was going to announce the selling of the Linux division on 23 Jan but was stopped by the DoJ investigation. Cowpland sees the writing on the wall and bails out thus reducing his legal liability. Other possibilities were that he was disgusted with the Microsoft deal and the way the company was going or it was part of the deal that to get the financing Cowpland had to go within 6 months.
At least this explains the non announcement on 23 Feb but did Microsoft really spend $135 million just to get rid of Cowpland?
As an aside, I am hoping that Burney appoints a relative of Cdn prime Minister Jean Cretien or a high level Liberal crony as the new replacement director so that Corel can get some Canadian Govt contracts.
It is ironic that while the US Govt has ruled that Microsoft is a monopoly and has used illegal practices to dominate the office suite market, the Canadian Govt only chose to investigate the anti competitive practice of Microsoft investing in Corel.
Why did they not investigate in 1996 when Corel bought WordPerfect and the Canadian Govt depts started to choose Microsoft over Corel even though WP has been the standard in Canada for 15 years previous? I think it is because Bill Davis, Barbara McDougall and some of the other Directors were all high ranking Conservative party supporters. Even Derek Burney's dad was a former PC party fund-raiser and advisor to Brian Mulroney. Since the Liberals are in power for at least the next 4 years, Corel should bite the bullet and cut their Conservative ties. A good start would be with a new Liberal Director.
A yottabyte is 10 to the 24th power bytes or 2 to the 80th power bytes. I found it interesting how we have adopted the SI metric terms which are decimal based for information units which are binary based. It is all explained here http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
The main reason there are less deaths on German highways then in North America is the greater proportion of limited access, divided highways. Moss fatalities occur in head on colissions. In the US and Canada death rates decrease as more devided hoghweays are built. There is an extensive superhighway system but the majority of secondary roads are two way traffic and these are where most of the deaths happen. You can have 1oo car pile ups on the freeway but few deaths.
How about a car that will not allow itself to be driven by a drunk driver or exceed the posted speed limit? We should continue to try to improve survivability but most accidents are from driver error. 42% are alcohol related. Only 200 people died last year from hitting an animal yet the animal rights groups are screaming for more fences and tunnels to protect the animals. A drunk driver is more likely to speed, go through red lights, hit pedestrians etc. The only safe car will be one where the driver is taken out of the loop or at least checked to see if they are impaired.
99 out of every 100 people injured in the U.S. transportation system are injured in motor vehicle crashes: approximately 5-6 million every year. Despite this fact, highway safety accounts for only one percent of the budget of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Motor vehicle crashes cost society more than $150 billion every year in medical, rehabilitation and long-term care costs, lost productivity, lost tax revenue, property damage and police, judicial and social service costs. The health care portion is approximately $14 billion (of which Medicare and Medicaid pay $3.7 billion or almost 30 percent).
Motor vehicle crashes remain a major public health problem. They are the leading cause of death for Americans ages one to 34 and the leading cause of injury for all age groups. The numbers are so mind numbing that fatal accidents rarely get news coverage unless it involves more than 5 people yet it is news when an aircraft just skids off a runway and no one is hurt.
Why should we have cars that can go 200mph/320 kph when the maximum speed limit is 70/120?
Why are there places where the wearing of seatbelts is not mandatory?
Why do we confiscate a hunters weapon and take their truck for poaching a deer yet if they drive drunk and hurt someone they may just get off with a fine and a temporary suspension?
If you say you hate someone you can get 7 years in jail for the hate crime yet if you drive over them and kill them when drunk you might get as much as 2 years.
I say that we have to stop the highway slaughter and this proposal to limit speed is a good start. Something also has to be done about drinking and driving. In 1994 alcohol-related deaths were 16,900 or 42 percent of total traffic fatalities. Why not use technology to not allow drunk drivers to drive? Penalties don't work.
A few more years and everyone will be flying to work and landing on sky scrapers.
Someone mentioned that they should just open source the whole thing but in fact they have. You can download the source code from their FTP site. I think the main reason they are getting out is that Debian did not like their changes and did not incorporate many( any?) into the new version. It must be expensive to have to repackage all those boxes every few months when a change happens.
BTW, Cowpland originaly planned to give CLOS away but it got so much advance hype that they started selling it and made $5 million in the first few months.
System requirements:
X Window System:
9 MB RAM for first user; 2.5 MB for each additional user
43 to 103 MB hard disk space, depending on platform and installation options
Character Terminals: 2 MB RAM for first user; 1.5 MB for each additional user
31 to 40 MB hard disk space, depending on platform and installation options
The spec format in question was powerpoint 4.0 which wordPerfect Office could handle but the competion was rigged against Corel from the start. Corel asked for more time as they had just aquired WP but Supply and Services said no. So Corel showed up for the demo. It all worked well on their laptop but the DND test machine did not have a crucial patch for windows. You can read all the details here
BTW it is ironic that Corel is selling off their Linux distro just as DND has started testing Corel Linux as a possible replacement desktop.
Actually Corel's government business started declining seven years ago when the Liberals took over from Brian Mulroney's Conservatives(PCs). Cowpland was a big PC supporter as evidenced by their having a former PC cabinent minister and a former PC Ontario premier on the board of directors. Even the current CEO's father was a former Mulroney advisor. When the PCs lost the Liberals started giving contracts to Microsoft. In 1995, just after Corel bought WordPerfect, the Canadian military switched from WordPerfect to Microsoft(this is after having been standardized on WordPerfect for over 10 years). Revenue Canada did the same. Even though Corel sued RC and won some cash, RC still bought Microsoft. Now that the Liberals are in power for at least another 4 years would not expect this trend to reverse. The only exception to this is the external affair dept who have stayed with Corel so that all the embasseys would be using a Canadian product.
Most of Corel's business has been coming from the US govt, lawyers and universities. Only a tiny trickle of revenue comes from Canadian Govt depts.
The latest figures are in the region of 10.8 TB for a device of that size - more than four times the original value.
According to Mike Downey, head of Cavendish Management Resource, which is handling the commercial issues associated with the technology, the research also applies to DVD style storage media, "That figure has also been revised upwards: to 245GB on a single sided device," he said.
It sounds like I should put off buying a new 20 gig HD.