Richard Carriere Quotations

With WordPerfect Office X3, Corel has created a powerful solution that enables users to create, edit, and re-use their content, particularly through its new ability to import, edit and export PDF, as well as its exceptional Microsoft Office compatibility.

Our strategy is to offer a choice to PC users. We offer all the features of Microsoft Office and, since we started offering WordPerfect through OEMs in 2003, a large number of people have chosen us rather than Microsoft products.

With Corel WordPerfect Office X3, Corel has created a powerful solution that enables users to create, edit, and re-use their content, particularly through its new ability to import, edit and export PDF, as well as its exceptional Microsoft Office compatibility. Now customers can choose a feature-rich office suite that supports today's most widely-used open and proprietary file formats, backed by Corel's outstanding customer support, for up to 60% less than the cost of Microsoft Office.

The software industry, in some cases, has reached a tipping point where new features provide marginal value to small business users. While it is important to continue providing useful new features, it is equally important to improve ease-of-use, so users can get more value out of the products than they have been able to in the past. Small businesses simply don't have the time or resources to worry about their technology - it's incumbent on vendors to build products that help the bottom line, not hurt it.

This is the first word processor to be able to import PDF documents without having to copy and paste. Also, most tables will retain their formatting.

This is the first time that such a feature is incorporated into a word processor.

This is a far richer offering than what was offered previously, and that was a driver for the deal.

This is all about selling a solution to small business instead of a value-priced PC with a glob of software. This is a tier one PC maker and a tier one software vendor both offering very aggressive value price.