CEO: Corel's on the comeback (ZDNet) [LWN.net]

ZDNet features an interview with Corel president Derek Burney.

"ZDNet: Since you've abandoned Corel Linux for the desktop--and in light of Mac OS X, which has a Unix core--what is Corel's current vision for Linux?"

"Burney: We created a desktop version of Linux because we thought that Linux was very powerful but difficult to use. The product was a technological success, but the market wasn't interested at that time, so we stopped developing the operating system. But we do offer applications for Linux. Nowadays Linux is an operating system just like Mac or Windows, so if there is a business case to justify creating an application, then we'll do it."

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CEO: Corel's on the comeback (ZDNet)

Posted Jul 1, 2002 17:36 UTC (Mon) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

... But we do offer applications for Linux.

They do?

Funny, *I* can't find them.

The only things I remember ever seeing for Linux were Draw (9, I think), Paint, and the WP/Office products. A not especially cursory inspection of their website just now does not show that any of those products are currently available for Linux.

Nor, of course, is the OS itself, nor their actually pretty spiffy Netwinder thin client (which they had to metamorphose into a workgroup server because they couldn't figure out how to market it... <sigh>