Corel Adds Executive Leadership in Sales and Marketing.

OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 1999--

Corel Corporation (Nasdaq:CORL) (TSE:COR) President and chief executive officer Dr. Michael Cowpland is pleased to announce the following appointments to the Company's Executive Leadership Team (ELT), effective today.

Steven J. Houck, has been named executive vice president of sales. Mr. Houck, 30, has been with Corel for the past four years, most recently as a Tier One Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) account manager. Mr. Houck has been responsible for managing Corel's relationships with hardware manufacturers Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and Fountain Technologies, as well as expanding OEM sales programs throughout the United States and Latin America.

"This is a great opportunity to lead Corel's worldwide sales force and build on our recent successes with Linux as well as continuing the growth of our core WordPerfect and CorelDRAW brands," said Mr. Houck. "The next year presents tremendous new opportunities for Corel in building relationships with key players in new channels based on the Web, and Applications Service Providers (ASPs) as well as expanding traditional distribution and sales channels."

Ross Cammalleri, currently Corel's vice president, marketing communications, becomes executive vice president of marketing. Mr. Cammalleri, 40, joined Corel earlier this year and was responsible for leading the creative efforts around the highly successful Corel LINUX OS launch. Mr. Cammalleri came to Corel from Cossette Communications, where he was responsible for managing a large staff and was lead account manager for BCE, arranging for the provision of a wide range of services including direct marketing, advertising and more. Cammalleri previously held senior positions with Academie Ogilvy and Ogilvy Mather.

"I look forward to the tremendous opportunity to focus all of Corel's marketing and communications resources on strengthening the Company's great brands such as WordPerfect and CorelDRAW," said Mr. Cammalleri. "Linux and the Web provide us with a wonderful opportunity to grow our current base of 50 million users worldwide."

"Steve and Ross are tremendous assets for Corel, a super addition to our leadership team and I look forward to working with them," said Dr. Cowpland. "I am confident their talents and energy will help Corel capitalize on great new opportunities that Linux and other new technologies are providing us."

Mr. Houck and Mr. Cammalleri will report directly to Dr. Cowpland and lead a cohesive team of senior sales and marketing managers responsible for the world wide branding, awareness and sale of Corel's products and services in a variety of channels from retail to corporate and government. Corel Corporation

Corel Corporation is an internationally recognized developer of award-winning graphics and business productivity applications. Development of market-leading products such as the CorelDRAW(R) line of graphics applications and the Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) Suite of business tools is continually evolving to meet the demands of the corporate, retail and academic markets. Committed to value, compatibility, choice and open standards, Corel develops products for the Windows(R), Macintosh(R), UNIX(R), Linux(R) and Java(TM) platforms. Corel's common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market(SM) under the symbol CORL and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol COR. For more information visit Corel's Web site at www.corel.com.

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