Corel K-12 Site License Makes The Grade For Education Market; Canadian Provinces Choose Corel Software For More Than 2 Million Students and Teachers; WordPerfect Retains Premier Position in Ontario Schools.OTTAWA, Canada -- Corel today announced two significant public sector wins with the education ministries of Ontario and Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island, province (2001 pop. 135,294), 2,184 sq mi (5,657 sq km), E Canada, off N.B. and N.S. Geography One of the Maritime Provinces, Prince Edward Island lies in the Gulf of St. selecting Corel software for more than 2 million students and teachers across the two provinces. The provinces are taking advantage of Corel's innovative, new K-12 site license which gives North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. schools unparalleled access to the company's award-winning education portfolio. Under the terms of Corel's flexible licensing program, publicly funded schools across Ontario will have immediate access to WordPerfect(R) Office 12 and CorelDRAW(R) Graphics Suite 12 while, in Prince Edward Island (PEI), classrooms province-wide will now have access to Corel's premier photo editing See photo editor. package, Paint Shop(TM) Pro(R) 9. Ontario is upgrading their products as an extension of a longstanding relationship with Corel and Prince Edward Island is acquiring this software as part of a new relationship with the company. Maximizing Budgets with Flexible Corel Licensing Today's announcement marks another significant validation See validate. validation - The stage in the software life-cycle at the end of the development process where software is evaluated to ensure that it complies with the requirements. of Corel's efforts to provide the most flexible licensing programs in the industry, tailored to the specific needs of customers. The K-12 site license allows schools to select any combination of five software solutions from Corel for graphics, desktop productivity and digital photography at one set price, providing education buyers with the ability to customize their choices based on the needs and priorities of each school district. "Corel is proud to showcase two new agreements that demonstrate our growing momentum within the education community and the public sector as a whole," said Amish Mehta, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Corel. "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. has long been the office suite of choice in Ontario schools. The renewal of this relationship coupled with our new agreement with the province of PEI demonstrates Corel's leadership in providing educators with high quality software and flexible, easy-to-administer programs that can be tailored to meet the specific needs of each school and district." Added Mr. Mehta: "With Corel's new K-12 site license, students and teachers have access to software powerful enough to match students' creativity, yet easy-to-use, highly compatible with other programs, and priced to provide excellent value to public sector institutions striving to maximize limited IT budgets. No other vendor offers the education community the breadth of software solutions and the degree of flexibility that Corel provides in its licensing programs." The Full Spectrum of Software for Today's Classrooms Corel's education portfolio consists of the following applications: --CorelDRAW(R) Graphics Suite 12 --Corel(R)Painter(TM) IX --WordPerfect(R) Office 12 Student and Teacher Edition --Paint Shop(TM) Pro(R) 9 --Paint Shop(TM) Pro(R) Studio Schools participating in Corel's new K-12 program receive one set of media, a site license, free home and laptop Same as laptop computer. laptop - portable computer usage for teachers and staff, and free Lynda.com training for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 and Corel Painter Painter is the name of a raster graphics software package used to create natural-looking artistic images using a computer. Originally available on the Macintosh, it is now also available for Windows. IX. Also, when a school purchases Corel's site license, the professional development centers in their district will also be eligible to receive a free site license and one free training seminar. Eligible schools may purchase a K-12 site license for one, two, or all five of the products included in Corel's education portfolio. A site license for one Corel product carries a suggested retail price of $1000 to $1750 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. ($1350 to $2365 Cdn), depending on the product selected. Schools may purchase a site license for any two products for a suggested retail price of $2500 USD ($3375 Cdn) or they can purchase all five products in Corel's education portfolio for a suggested retail price of $3500 US ($4725 Cdn). For one set price, each participating school is able to deploy Corel's software on every computer and provide faculty and staff with free home and laptop usage. For more information, including details on maintenance pricing, please visit www.corel.com/k-12. Corel's K-12 site license is available through Corel's authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: resellers. Schools interested in testing Corel's software are encouraged to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. free, full-featured trial versions at www.corel.com. About Corel 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. 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 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 the CorelDRAW(R) Graphics Suite, the WordPerfect(R) Office Suite, the Corel Painter Natural-Media(R) painting and illustration software and the Paint Shop(TM) Family of digital photography and image-editing software. Corel was acquired by San Francisco-based Vector Capital in August 2003, and since that time, has re-established growth for its flagship product lines and achieved multiple consecutive quarters of corporate profitability. Founded in 1985, Corel is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. For more information, please visit www.corel.com. (C) 2004 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW, Painter, Natural-Media and the Corel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. All other product, font font or typeface or type family Assortment or set of type (alphanumeric characters used for printing), all of one coherent style. 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