Corel Announces Prices for Upcoming WordPerfect Office 2000 - Productivity Suite Offers Performance, Compatibility at a Compelling Price.OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 1999--COREL (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :COSFF) (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :COS.) Corel Corporation (company) Corel Corporation - A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company. today announced the much-anticipated pricing for the upcoming release of WordPerfect(r) Office 2000 suite of business applications for North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . An upgrade version of WordPerfect Office A suite of office applications for Windows from Corel that includes WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Corel Presentations, Paradox and CorelCENTRAL (PIM, scheduling, etc.). It is the successor to Corel WordPerfect Suite, which was the successor to Corel Office. 2000 Standard Edition, which includes the four integrated core applications, WordPerfect 9, Quattro(r) Pro 9, Corel(r) Presentations(tm) 9 and CorelCENTRAL(tm) 9, will be available for a suggested retail price of US $109 (1). An upgrade of the Voice-Powered Edition, featuring Dragon NaturallySpeaking(tm) and Corel Print Office(tm), will be sold for a suggested retail price of US $159 (1). WordPerfect Office 2000 Professional Edition, which includes all the features of the Voice-Powered Edition plus NetPerfect(r) (formerly code-named NetDocs) and Paradox(r) 9, will be available for a suggested retail price of US $209 (1). Those entitled to purchase the upgrade version of WordPerfect Office 2000 include: registered users of any version of WordPerfect(r), Corel(r) Office Professional, CorelDRAW(tm) 8, Corel VENTURA A Windows desktop publishing program from Corel. It is a full-featured program suited for producing books and other long documents and includes several graphics functions from CorelDRAW. Corel VENTURA was formerly Ventura Publisher, developed by a company that was later acquired by Xerox. (tm) 8 or any word processor, spreadsheet or office suite (standard or professional) from Microsoft, Lotus, Novell or Borland. "This suite offers a fully integrated, compatible office solution and is of tremendous value," said Jim Orban, Corel's executive vice president of marketing. "When you consider the performance and features offered in WordPerfect Office 2000, we are confident that our customers will be very impressed." Those who do not qualify for an upgrade can purchase a full version of WordPerfect Office 2000 Standard Edition for a suggested retail price of US $399 (1). The Voice-Powered Edition will be sold for a suggested retail price of US $449 (1) and WordPerfect Office 2000 Professional Edition will be available for a suggested retail price of US $499 (1). "Pricing always sends a powerful positioning message to consumers," said Jeff Tarter, publisher of Softletter, an industry newsletter based in Watertown, Mass. "Corel's aggressive value-pricing sends an especially strong message at a time when Microsoft, the category leader, has been nudging its own suite prices steadily upward." Details on international pricing, and pricing for Corel Licence Program (CLP 1. CLP - Cornell List Processor. 2. CLP - Constraint Logic Programming. ) for WordPerfect Office 2000, will be announced at a later date. 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 performance, compatibility, value and open standards, Corel develops products for the Windows(r), Macintosh(r), UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (r), Linux(r) and Java(tm) platforms. Corel's common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. (sm) under the symbol COSFF and on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. under the symbol COS. For more information visit Corel's Web site at www.corel.com. (1) Prices subject to change without notice. Dealers may sell for less. Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW and the Go Further logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation or Corel Corporation Limited. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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