Corel to Offer Corel WordPerfect 3.5 Enhancement Pack for Macintosh as a Free Download.OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 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 :CORL CORL Corel Corporation (stock symbol) CORL Coalition of Reef Lovers CORL capital outlay revenue limit CORL change-orientated reflective listening (psychotherapy) CORL Central Ontario Ringette League ) (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :COR.) 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. (NASDAQ: CORL, TSE: COR) is pleased to announce that it will offer Corel(r) WordPerfect(r) 3.5 Enhancement Pack for Macintosh(r) as a free download(1) from its Web site ( Corel WordPerfect See WordPerfect Office and WordPerfect Corporation. 3.5 Enhancement Pack for Macintosh, released in August, 1997, is the latest version of this product published by Corel. Despite some minor incompatibilities with the latest release of the Mac(r) OS, Corel believes that WordPerfect 3.5 for Macintosh continues to provide great value to the Macintosh community. In particular, WordPerfect 3.5 for Macintosh offers compatibility with older, non-power PC-based Macintoshes, speed, customizability and rich functionality. Corel will make the download(1) available as of August 16, 1999. Please visit (www.corel.com/products/macintosh/wpmac35/newdownload) to be notified by email when the download is available. "We recognize that WordPerfect for Macintosh remains popular within the Macintosh community," said Dr. Michael Cowpland Michael Cowpland (born April 23, 1943) is a Canadian entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company. Cowpland was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England and obtained a BSc. , president and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation. "We are offering the free download because we believe it can continue to offer value to the Mac community as an alternative word processor where few competitors exist." Aging source code and increasing differences in functionality between the Macintosh and Windows(r) versions of WordPerfect have made it no longer feasible for Corel to enhance or build on the WordPerfect 3.5 Macintosh code base. Therefore, no further versions of WordPerfect for Macintosh will be released based on the 3.5 code base. The free download(1) will consist of the WordPerfect software only. The clipart, webart, sounds, templates and fonts that are included with the full box product will not be included in the downloadable package. Customers wishing to purchase the full box product may still do so through Corel Customer Service (1-800-77-COREL) or through Corel eStore(tm) (www.shop.corel.com), while quantities last. Technical support for WordPerfect 3.5 Macintosh will no longer be offered as of October 29, 1999. Corel pledges to keep the Macintosh community informed as it moves forward with its plans for future Macintosh product releases. Corel is currently strengthening its commitment to the Macintosh platform in the graphics area; please see the press release issued on July 20, 1999 for an announcement on upcoming consumer graphics products. No further product announcements will be made at this time. (1)Offer available only to those customers with Internet access See how to access the Internet. . 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 CORL 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 COR. For more information visit Corel's Web site at www.corel.com. 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 names are trademarks of their respective companies. All other brands and products referenced herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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