[ale] Corel/Sun/JAVA observation

[Mandrake]

On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 03:13:06PM -0500, Rob Butera wrote:
> 
> http://yahoo.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1494104.html?pt.yfin.cat_fin.txt.ne
> (I hope this works -- it was linked via Yahoo)
> 
> Corel has announced they expect 1/2 their revenue to be from 
> Linux within 5 years.
> 
> What is more interesting is that the article states that Corel's original
> objective, which they punted on, was developing a Java-based office suite.
> To quote "Corel ... hopes that Linux will provide the salvation that
> Java didn't."
> 
> If I remember correctly, Sun has explicity stated that their reason for
> acquiring Star Office last summer is to "trim the fat" and port it to Java.
> 
> Can Sun succeed where Corel gave up?

well, "trimming the fat" and "porting to java" seem mutually exclusive to me.

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