Charles Mueller:
> Antitrust at the 'grass roots':
>
> My local newspaper, the Vero Beach (FL) Press Journal (one of the
>Scripps Howard chain), had an editorial this morning allowing as how "Ralph
>Nader is trying to drum up anti-Microsoft legal action in Europe... Nader,
>who apparently despises Microsoft, sent an underling to convince the
>European Union that it ought to kick the corporation around a bit, too. The
>idea should be appealing to Europeans, who some years ago extorted
>privileged information from IBM and passed it on to their uninspired
>computer companies. Meanwhile, Japan and South Korea have reportedly
>started their own Microsoft probes, even without the urging of a Naderite."
>
A local (Ottawa) company, Corel, would not mind seeing Microsoft kicked
right off the planet. It has been trying to do just that, but by all
appearances, has rather badly stubbed its toes in the process.
According to a recent Globe & Mail article "Corel Corp.'s spectacular
decline is accelerating ... Corel said yesterday that its preliminary
results show that it will lose $95-million (U.S.) in the quarter that ended
Nov. 30 because of weakening software sales ... For the second quarter in
a row, unexpectedly weak sales of its WordPerfect and CoreIDraw software
pushed it deep into the red, with this quarter's loss expected to amount to
$1.43 a share. Final results are to be released on Jan.13."
Perhaps this time round Goliath has slewn or slewed (or whatever the verb
is) David?
Ed Weick
