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Good point.
One matter that will have to be taken into consideration, however, would be MS's reaction to such a move. Since the bulk of Corel's products are Windows based, MS would see this as unwanted competition. Consider, for example a Compaq Windows PC bundled with Corel Office and Corel Draw, and perhaps coming with Netscape 6 - MS would stand to lose a lot from something like this, both in marketshare and revenue. Their reaction to this would probably come in the form of raising the prices of their OS and Office products when selling them to Compaq, and Compaq could lose more from this than gain.
If I were to choose a partner for Corel I would undoubtedly pick AOL. AOL is already at war with MS over internet service and content providing, not to mention their recent linux based internet appliance. By owning Corel's consumer oriented applications, including their linux ditro, AOL would control the desktop of its customers and provide a viable alternative to Microsoft on every level, both on Windows and linux. Furthermore, if and when ASP's start to dominate the scene, AOL would have a set of applications to offer to it's customers ready at hand.
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Good point.
One matter that will have to be taken into consideration, however, would be MS's reaction to such a move. Since the bulk of Corel's products are Windows based, MS would see this as unwanted competition. Consider, for example a Compaq Windows PC bundled with Corel Office and Corel Draw, and perhaps coming with Netscape 6 - MS would stand to lose a lot from something like this, both in marketshare and revenue. Their reaction to this would probably come in the form of raising the prices of their OS and Office products when selling them to Compaq, and Compaq could lose more from this than gain.
If I were to choose a partner for Corel I would undoubtedly pick AOL. AOL is already at war with MS over internet service and content providing, not to mention their recent linux based internet appliance. By owning Corel's consumer oriented applications, including their linux ditro, AOL would control the desktop of its customers and provide a viable alternative to Microsoft on every level, both on Windows and linux. Furthermore, if and when ASP's start to dominate the scene, AOL would have a set of applications to offer to it's customers ready at hand.