A proposed merger between Inprise and Corel was announced in February 2000, aimed at producing Linux based products.

On November 28, 2007, Corel announced that the office in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, where Paint Shop Pro was created, would be shut down, with development moving to offices in California and China.

Its predecessor was WordPerfect Suite, assembled by Novell in 1994 and sold to Corel in 1996.

16-bit version of Corel WordPerfect Suite for Windows 3. 1x ( US version only ) was released on 1996-05-08.

Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 was also included with Sony PC.

Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 was released in 1997-06-17.

Amnesty program was offered for unlicensed user to upgrade to Corel WordPerfect Suite 8

The application was acquired by Corel in 1993.

It was repackaged and soon released as Corel Ventura 4. 2 without any major change in the application, other than to drop all support for platforms other than Microsoft Windows.

The first real Corel version was 5. 0, released in 1994, and made fundamental changes to both user interface and document structure.

The application was rewritten for the Win32 platform and was released in 1996, labeled Corel Ventura 7 ( instead of 6 ) so that it would match the version number of CorelDRAW.

Corel Ventura 8 was released in 1998.

They developed Ventura Publisher, which was later marketed by Xerox ( and eventually by Corel ), which would go on to be a very popular desktop publishing program for some time.

* Michael Cowpland, founder of high-tech companies Mitel, Corel, and ZIM, lived in Bexhill and went to Bexhill College until he was 18.

A new board of directors was then appointed and Derek Burney Jr., announced that the product line would be split into several brands — DeepWhite, ProCreate, and Corel.

In August 2003, Corel was bought out by the private equity firm Vector Capital for $ 1. 05 a share ( slightly more than the cash in the company ).

In March 2005 Corel announced that the United States Justice Department purchased 50, 000 licenses of WordPerfect ( adding to the worldwide user base of 20 million ) and that WordPerfect was adding 4 million new users per year thanks to bundling deals with Dell Computer.

In November 2009, it was announced that Vector Capital would be purchasing the remaining shares of common stock in Corel Corporation.

The software was rebranded Corel VideoStudio since Corel acquired Ulead and it became a working division of Corel.

The annual Corel World Design Contest ran from 1990 through 1998 and was considered to be one of the most prestigious graphic design contests, worldwide.

Graf stated after the match she was extremely nervous heading into match primarily because of how strongly Seles had started in their prior match at the 1998 Corel WTA Championships.

* Corel is founded in Ottawa.

Cowpland would later form the company that became Corel and Matthews later founded Newbridge Networks.

It was founded by Gavriel State, who ran the Linux product division at the Corel Corporation.

The particular bundled programs have varied with each numbered version and have not been sold by Corel as separate products.

: JASC Software is officially acquired by Corel.

A much more print-specialized subset of SVG ( SVG Print, authored by Canon, HP, Adobe and Corel ) is a W3C Working Draft.

The involvement of Corel for a time assisted the project, chiefly by employing Julliard and others to work on it.

Other Optima clones include Optane from the WSI Fonts collection, Opulent by Rubicon Computer Labs Inc., Ottawa from Corel, CG Omega and Eterna.

ObjectPAL is short for Object-Oriented Paradox Application Language, which is the programming language used by the Borland Paradox database application ( now owned by Corel ).

WordPerfect Office is an office suite developed by Corel Corporation.

Quattro Pro is a spreadsheet program developed by Borland and now sold by Corel, most often as part of Corel's WordPerfect Office suite.

The consolidation represented the second and final step in the acquisition of Corel by Corel Holdings, L. P., a limited partnership controlled by an affiliate of Vector Capital.

Following approval of the Consolidation, Corel filed articles of amendment to effect the consolidation with the result that Corel is now wholly owned by Corel Holdings.

He was investigated by the Ontario Securities Commission ( OSC ) in 1999-2000 into allegations that he had used insider information to sell $ 20 million in Corel shares at $ 8 / share shortly before the company posted disappointing results.

* CPS ( file format ), a file format for raster graphics images produced by Corel Photo House, a discontinued forerunner of Corel Photo-Paint and Paint Shop Pro

Michael Cowpland ( born April 23, 1943 ) is a British-born entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company.

Created in Corel Draw by Michael Reeve, 16 May 2004.

Created in Corel Draw by Michael Reeve, 16 May 2004.

Created in Corel Draw by Michael Reeve, 16 May 2004.

He began his career with Corel as a developer and, with the help of his mentor Michael Cowpland, rose quickly through the ranks, eventually heading the engineering department and becoming President and Chief executive officer following Cowpland's resignation in 2000.