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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1><font color="maroon">Corel WordPerfect Suite 2000 and CorelDraw 9 Release Press Conference</font></H1>
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<H4>By <a href="mailto:dstaff@echelon.ca">Dean Staff</a></H4>
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On April 7, 1999, Corel Corporation held a press conference in
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to announce the official release of CorelDraw 9
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Graphics Suite, which includes Corel Photo-Paint 9 and Corel WordPerfect
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2000 Suite.
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While the announcement was geared more towards those who use the Microsoft Windows
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platform, it was also announced that the Linux version of Corel WordPerfect
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Suite 2000 should be available in the last quarter of 1999, probably
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around November, and that the Linux version of CorelDraw 9 Graphics
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Suite will be available in the first quarter of 2000.
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<h4>Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux Booth</h4>
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There are new features in both packages. One of them is
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real-time previewing in the WordPerfect Suite, also called Live Effects
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in CorelDraw, allowing you to ``preview'' a potential change to
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your document or drawing in ``real-time'' without committing
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to the change permanently. Also, CorelDraw 9 Suite will include IXLA
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digital camera support, allowing one to download and edit images from
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approximately 120 different camera models. Both packages allow you to
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publish a document in PDF format, a very important new feature for the
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legal community that locks a document so it cannot be edited, allowing
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lawyers to submit briefs electronically, safe in the knowledge they cannot
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be altered but are easily retrievable.
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While other Linux packages are available, it is nice to see
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``commercial'' software packages with outstanding
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industry acceptance available to the Linux community, further
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proving that Linux IS a viable alternative.
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To show the success of Corel's Linux efforts, they provided the
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following information. Since the Personal Edition of WordPerfect 8 for
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Linux was released for download, over 900,000 download attempts have been
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recorded. Based on an on-line survey, 60% of the people downloading
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stated they were previous Microsoft Word users.
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To add a little note of humour, during the CorelDraw demonstration,
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done on a Windows 95/98 machine, the software froze. This author
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had to bite his tongue hard so as not to yell out, ``That would
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not happen on a Linux machine!'' To the credit of the young lady
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performing the demonstration, she very quickly recovered and turned the
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``crash'' into a demonstration of how fast CorelDraw 9 loads,
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for which she received a round of applause.
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Dr. Michael Cowpland also announced Corel has been negotiating with
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the Debian Linux Development team to use the Debian Linux distribution
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as the backbone of Corel Linux for the Desktop. He also announced
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they would be using KDE as the default desktop environment. This came
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as a bit of a surprise, considering Corel's past work with Red Hat.
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Dr. Cowpland explained that Red Hat is concentrating on network servers
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and Caldera (another logical choice for an alliance) is focusing on
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Novell networks, while Corel's focus is on the desktop PC. Instead of
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reinventing the wheel, Corel decided to align themselves with an existing
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distribution, and Debian was the one they picked.
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Some of the features Corel is promising in their Corel Linux for the
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Desktop are an easy setup GUI, plug-and-play support, auto-hardware
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detection, auto update from the web, Windows network integration including
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mapping and sharing, and a home networking GUI interface.
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It will be interesting to see how many of these features are present when
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Corel releases their Linux for the Desktop, due in the fall of 1999 to
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coincide with the release of WordPerfect Suite 2000 for Linux, but they
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have stated a beta release will be ready for LinuxWorld in August.
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Corel has realized that to get the masses to switch to Linux, they
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cannot expect users to purchase all new applications for the Linux
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operating system: they must provide a way for users to run their existing
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applications. To that end, Corel is also working with the Wine Project,
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partly to facilitate the porting of the two suites to Linux and also
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provide the ability to run one's existing Windows-based applications
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under Linux. For this, they should be applauded.
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These are truly exciting times for the Linux community, and I for
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one am excited to see where Linux will be this time next year. One
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of Dr. Cowpland's closing remarks was that this is the 10th
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anniversary of CorelDraw, and while we have had great years of
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CorelDraw (under Windows), he is looking forward to the next 10 years
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of Linux.
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<center><H5>Copyright © 1999, Dean Staff <BR>
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Published in Issue 40 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, Mid-April 1999</H5></center>
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