COREL CORP. (www.corel.com).(Product Information)

Soft-Letter, December, 1999

In November, Corel announced a pilot project to offer subscription- based remote hosting of its WordPerfect Office applications. Corel business development manager Sheldon Speers says the new subscription service, which is currently available only through a single ASP reseller, carries a "list price" of $9.99 per month, per desktop. "We haven't had much customer feedback to date," he says, "though what we have heard has been relatively positive." Speers adds that the new service is primarily aimed at smaller corporate customers who expect to deal with resellers. In the future, Corel will probably develop "a stronger effort" of its own to provide a comparable consumer subscription service.

Remote hosting may be new for Corel, says Speers, but the company has a...

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