Corel Streamlines Licensing with 'One-Price' Solutions for Colleges and Universities; New Education Pricing Program Provides Low Price for Schools to Put Leading Productivity, Graphics and Digital Imaging Applications on All Desktops.OTTAWA -- 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 its new Higher Education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. Licensing Program, a highly-streamlined licensing program designed to meet the productivity and graphics needs of teachers, staff and students at colleges and universities. The new program provides a simplified purchase process, a highly-competitive one-price solution and technical support and training for entire educational institutions. The new program provides institutions with access to a complete package of academic versions of Corel's award-winning applications, including WordPerfect(R) Office 12-Student and Teacher Edition for word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and , spreadsheets, and presentations; Paint Shop(TM) Pro (R) 9 for digital imaging; CorelDRAW(R) Graphics Suite 12 for illustration and page layout :For the Wikipedia policy about articles layout, see Wikipedia:Guide to layout. Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements (content) on a page. , digital imaging and motion graphics creation; 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. (TM) IX for Natural-Media painting and illustration; and 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 12, for technical graphics. Corel's applications are known for their extensive compatibility with leading industry standard file formats. Corel is offering three single-price options for institutions, departments and labs. Institutions can select one product, a combination of two products, or all five, for as low as 83 cents per user (based on 15,000-30,000 students in an institution). Departments-such as a law school or the department of engineering, for example-can similarly choose one, two or five products, for as low as $1.25 per user (based on 1,000-4,999 students enrolled). The third option is for individual computer labs, which also provides a solution for one product, a combination of two products, or all five for a single fee. The program supports the professional development of faculty by providing free web-based training seminars, curriculum and training resources. With this program, faculty and staff receive "take home rights" to use the applications; when Maintenance is purchased for the department or site option, students also receive "take home rights." In addition, the institution receives five free Technical Priority Support Incidents with the purchase of maintenance. By allowing institutions to distribute software to students for free, Corel is providing a unique and innovative way to ensure that students, faculty and staff use consistent applications in the most affordable manner possible. As one of the world's top ten packaged software See software package. companies, Corel has gained an international reputation for offering schools, businesses, and value-conscious consumers software that is innovative, affordable, and easy to use. Working closely with its education partners, Corel has developed a program that simplifies the way schools purchase software, giving education buyers the ability to customize their choices based on the needs and priorities of each school and district. "Corel's new higher education licensing program vastly simplifies the process for institutions to purchase and deploy Corel software across a significant number of desktops," said Chad Hoke hoke tr.v. hoked, hok·ing, hokes Slang To give an impressive but artificial, false, or deceptive quality to: hoked up some phony allegations. , vice president, channel sales at Corel. "We listened closely to the universities and colleges that use Corel's products to develop a streamlined process for them to keep costs down while utilizing the award-winning, standards-based applications their students and faculty need to successfully maximize the educational process." "Corel has introduced an excellent program," said Sue Workman WORKMAN. One who labors, one who is employed to do business for another. 2. The obligations of a workman are to perform the work he has undertaken to do; to do it in proper time; to do it well to employ the things furnished him according to his contract. , director of user support, University Information Technology Services at Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. . "We are pleased to add Corel software to our enterprise licensing agreements for students, faculty and staff. Corel's very aggressive pricing structure has made it an incredible value for Indiana University." Pricing and Availability The Corel Higher Education Licensing Program 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 free, full-featured trial versions at www.corel.com/highered. For pricing and additional information on the Corel Higher Education Licensing Program, please visit http://www.corel.com/highered. About Corel 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 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) 2005 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW, Painter, Paint Shop Pro, DESIGNER, 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. Before the advent of computers, fonts were expressed in cast metal that was used as a template for printing. and company names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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