The Bell Tolls for Corel

The Bell Tolls for Corel

While surfing Corel's site, I noticed that Service Pack 3 is available for WordPerfect Office Suite 2000. It weighs in at a hefty 80MB. This is why I use a networked install for WordPerfect 2000, they issue massive service packs so often, I'd never be able to keep my users up to date!

According to this story over at Slashdot, Corel's merger with Borland/Inprise has fallen through. It was reported a few weeks ago at MaximumPC that if this merger didn't go through, Corel was going to be out of money within a couple months. While I don't really like WordPerfect, I'd like to see it continue to be updated. I imagine it'll be sold off to some other company if Corel folds, how many owners has that product had now? I will be sad if Corel Linux is no longer produced, as it's a distribution that's very easy for a Windows person to use and configure.