[ale] Corel/Sun/JAVA observation

[rbutera at ece.gatech.edu (Rob Butera)]

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?


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