Corel and Sony Extend Holiday Gift-Giving with Special Offer of Corel WordPerfect Suite.OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 1997--If you happened to get a Sony PC for the holidays, Corel Dr. Michael C. J. Cowpland Cowpland founded Corel in 1985 and spent 15 years as its CEO and president. Previous to Corel, he founded Mitel Corporation in 1973, and subsequent to Corel, became CEO of ZIM Corporation (www.zti.ca). (Image courtesy of 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. In January 1989, however they entered the software publishing market with the introduction of CorelDraw. Corel became the second largest maker of personal productivity software in January 1996 when they purchased the WordPerfect See WordPerfect Office. family of software from Novell, Inc...) Corporation and Sony Electronics have a special post-holiday gift for you. The limited-time software promotion includes a special edition of Corel WordPerfect See WordPerfect Office and WordPerfect Corporation. Suite 7. Upon registering your Sony PC via built-in electronic on-line registration or by sending in your registration card between December 13, 1996 and January 31, 1997, you will be sent Corel's popular suite of business applications at no additional charge. "This is another super opportunity for us to offer Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 to an even wider audience," said Dr. Michael Cowpland, president and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation. "It's indeed an exciting deal." The special edition of Corel WordPerfect Suite See WordPerfect Office. 7 includes Corel WordPerfect 7, Corel Quattro Pro See Quattro Pro A Windows spreadsheet from Corel that provides advanced graphics and presentation capabilities, including goal seeking, 3D graphing and the ability to create multi-layered slide shows. It is optionally keystroke compatible with Lotus 1-2-3. Quattro Pro was originally developed by Borland, then purchased by Novell in 1994 and Corel in 1996. Quattro Pro was sold as a separate package (Corel Quattro Pro) for a while, but is now part of Corel's WordPerfect Office suites.. 7, Corel Presentations 7, Envoy 7 Viewer, CorelFLOW 3, 150 TrueType fonts, and more than 10,000 clipart images. "By offering this Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 software promotion, we are further enhancing the productivity of the Sony PC," said Tim Errington, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Sony Information Technologies of America, a divisional company of Sony Electronics. "Our PCs have been recognized as providing an exciting and productive user experience. This full office suite brings more home office power to the Sony PC." The Sony PCs combine the latest computer technologies (including 166 and 200 MHz Intel Pentium Processors, Microsoft Windows 95 operating system, and accelerated 3D graphics) with Sony's high-performance MPEG decoding and Multiscan (hardware) multiscan - A monitor that can synchronise to a variety of horizontal scan rates and refresh rates, allowing it to display images at different resolutions. Multimedia Computer Display (with its built-in stereo speakers, subwoofer and microphone), to deliver leading-edge entertainment and information for the home. Based in San Jose, Sony Information Technologies of America markets Sony-branded computer products, including the Sony PC, Trinitron displays, digital still cameras and other multimedia products through distributors, resellers and consumer retailers. For additional information about the PC by Sony call (800) 4-SONY-PC (467-6972) or visit Sony's World Wide Web site at www.sony.com/pc Incorporated in 1985, Corel Corporation is recognized internationally as an award-winning developer and marketer of productivity applications, graphics and multimedia software. Corel's product line includes CorelDRAW, Corel WordPerfect Suite, Corel Office A suite of applications for Windows from Corel that was superseded by Corel WordPerfect Suite. See WordPerfect Office. Professional, Corel VIDEO, Corel CAD, and over 30 multimedia software titles. Corel's products run on most operating systems, including Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, MS-DOS, and OS/2 and are consistently rated among the strongest in the industry. The company ships its products in over 17 languages through a network of more than 160 distributors in 70 countries world-wide. Corel is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol: COS) and on NASDAQ-National Market System (symbol: COSFF). For more information visit Corel's home page on the Internet at http://www.corel.com -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Corel and WordPerfect are registered trademarks and CorelDRAW, CorelVIDEO and CorelCAD are trademarks of Corel Corporation Limited. All products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies CONTACT: Corel Corporation Daniela Gaudert, 613/728-0826 x1333 danielag@corel.com or Sony Electronics Lisa Young, 408/955-5142 lisa_young@mail.sel.sony.com |
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