Corel Corporation Delivers Quality, Affordable Software on New Family of Lenovo Desktop and Notebook PCs; Addresses Growing Demand for Complete PC Solutions for Value-Conscious Small Businesses and Consumers.OTTAWA -- Addressing the increasing global demand for high-quality, low-cost computing, 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 that Lenovo has selected Corel, a leading provider of office productivity, graphics and digital imaging software, to provide software for Lenovo 3000, Lenovo's just-announced series of desktop and notebook PCs. The new family of computers will include the Corel(R) Small Business Center - a suite of powerful applications created specifically for the needs of value-conscious customers. The Corel Small Business Center features four of Corel's flagship software solutions for office productivity, digital image editing Changing or improving graphics images. It typically refers to bitmapped images rather than vector graphics drawings. Using an image editor, images can be modified by an artist using pen, brush, airbrush and other "painting" tools. and management, graphics and illustrations. By entering into a relationship with Corel, Lenovo is able to offer full-featured, affordable computing to customers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. greater value from their hardware and software investments. These complete, fully integrated hardware and software solutions - which offer a new breed of higher value PCs for customers that seek more from their computing investments - are targeted to value-conscious organizations, very small businesses and consumers in 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. as well as the burgeoning Latin American, Asia/Pacific and Indian markets. The software packages from Corel included on the Lenovo PC desktops and notebooks are: --Corel(R) Small Business Center -- The Corel Small Business Center is the container that houses a powerful suite of four Corel software solutions - Corel(R) 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. , CorelDRAW(R) Graphics Suite 12 Trial Edition, Corel(R) Paint Shop Pro(R) X Trial Edition and Corel(R) Photo Album(TM) 6 Starter Edition. It provides all of the core software required to run a small business more effectively than ever before. In addition, the Corel Small Business Center provides helpful guidance that allows users to complete important projects quickly and easily through its task-based approach and seamless navigation of relevant tools, templates and tips. --Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) Office -- Used by millions of customers around the globe, Corel WordPerfect See WordPerfect Office and WordPerfect Corporation. Office is the world's leading alternative to Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. . --Corel(R) Photo Album(TM) 6 Starter Edition -- Corel's new digital photography management and organization software. In addition, users will have a 60-day trial preview of the Corel Photo Album 6 Deluxe Edition. --Corel(R) Paint Shop Pro(R) X -- A free trial of Corel's award-winning digital image editing software. --CorelDRAW(R) Graphics Suite 12 -- A free trial of the Corel's legendary graphics and vector illustration software. Using the Corel Small Business Center, small businesses and consumers can handle important tasks quickly, easily and cost effectively. From creating professional looking marketing materials with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite to completing detailed financial analyses and complex documents with WordPerfect, users have all the tools they need to run a small business right at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. . "Lenovo and Corel share a common commitment to delivering greater customer value through innovation, customer service and flexible, highly-targeted product offerings," said David Dobson David James Dobson (born 1965, Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian murderer who is currently serving a life sentence in a medium security federal penitentiary in Kingston, Ontario. , Corel's Chief Executive Officer. "Both of our companies are committed to developing and delivering easy-to-use, full-featured products that deliver the best value-for-money in the industry today." The Lenovo 3000 product line, including the J100 desktop and C100 notebook, features built-in tools designed to help reduce IT expenses in small-business environments where every dollar counts. These tools let small business owners concentrate on their businesses - rather than their IT - with virus recovery, simplified network connectivity, and automatic updates. "Small businesses have unique needs and requirements which are often vastly different and more personal than their larger counterparts," said Rob Enderle Rob Enderle, founder of the Enderle Group, is a consultant, writer, and widely quoted technical and legal analyst in the information technology industry. Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices, the SCO Group, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell are (or have been) among his clients. , Principal Analyst for the Enderle Group, a consultancy that focuses on personal technology products and trends. "Lenovo and Corel are positioning this targeted offering primarily at companies with under 100 users looking for a high value, feature rich solution. Small businesses in North America, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and Asia/Pacific will undoubtedly appreciate both the attention and the choice." Pricing and Availability The Corel Small Business Center containing Corel WordPerfect, Corel Photo Album 6 Starter Edition and trial versions of the other products is included for free on the Lenovo systems. Prices to upgrade start at $29.00 USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. for Corel Photo Album 6 Deluxe and $79.00 USD for the Corel WordPerfect Office suite. The complete upgrade to the entire Corel Small Business Center - which includes the complete WordPerfect Office suite, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, Paint Shop Pro X and Corel Photo Album 6 Deluxe Edition - is priced at $386.00 USD. About Corel Corporation Corel Corporation provides innovative software solutions that help millions of value-conscious businesses and consumers in over 75 countries improve their productivity. The Company is renowned for its powerful software portfolio that combines innovative photo editing See photo editor. and graphics creation, vector-illustration, and technical-graphics applications along with office and personal productivity solutions. Corel's flagship products A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. include CorelDRAW(R) Graphics Suite, WordPerfect(R) Office Suite, Paint Shop(TM) Pro, Corel DESIGNER A full-featured Windows drawing program from Corel that has been widely used by technical illustrators. Originally developed by Micrografx, which was acquired by Corel in 2001, Corel DESIGNER is a very sophisticated vector graphics program providing many features of a CAD program, (R) Technical Suite, and Corel(R) Painter(TM). Founded in 1985, Corel is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. For more information, please visit www.corel.com. (C) 2006 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, CorelDRAW, WordPerfect, Painter, Paint Shop, Photo Album and the Corel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. All other product, font and company names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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