Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!donna
From: donna@micor.UUCP (Donna Hogan)
Subject: Setting the record straight...
Reply-To: donna@micor.UUCP (Donna Hogan)
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Ottawa (Ont)
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 02:38:52 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.023852.1735@micor.UUCP>


>Designer and CorelDraw are too expensive for a user who needs to draw
>pictures for papers (etc.), and who does not care about all those
>presentation libraries. COREL has just increased its Canadian price
>to almost $900.00, which is far above the value of the program and
>the marketing policy of the company is a shame.
>
>DO NOT BUY COREL, they deserve to be punished. If you need a good
>presentation program BUY MS pOWERpOINT, which is very good and priced
>more reasonably (I have been using it on MAC for long time, and the
>Window's version is even better).

Agreed, Designer and Corel Draw are not appropriate for users who don't
want to do much more than draw simple squares and circles.  Their customer
bases tend to be comprised of people who are trying to make money from
their graphics work.  That is, advertising agencies, sign companies, dtp
shops, etc.  Not really appropriate for students who just want to jazz up
their english assignments.

FLAME ON!!!

Corel Systems doesn't, however, deserve to be punished.  You do.  It's
always irksome when someone speaks from ignorance, pretending to be an
authority on something, and in reality is giving bad and very much mis-
informed advice to others.  Especially on so public a system as the net.

The price for Corel Draw has increased by about $100 Canadian to account
for a release, 2.0, which has literally taken over 18 months to develop!
I suppose it would be a perfect world if everyone would just give the
fruits of their labour away free, but alas, if Corel Draw was given away
free then only you would be happy.  Because there would be no other
upgrades in the future, there wouldn't be a company.  But I guess that
doesn't matter, just as long as you get a free ride.  Get with it, people
are in business, not in the business of running a charity.

As an aside, it may interest you to know that when Corel Draw 2.0 was
demonstrated at the Comdex show in Las Vegas, it blew everyone away!!!
The reviews of the show only talked about Windows and Corel Draw, (seems
that I might not be the only one to think that Corel Systems should be
congratulated, not punished as you so foolishly pointed out, on a release
that puts them head-and-shoulders above all other drawing packages - and
that goes for the MAC world too).

By the way, MS Powerpoint is not Corel Draw/Designer's competitor.
They are not even in the same market niche.  I can't believe you compared
them together.   PowerPoint is a presentation utility, and it is practically
expected that you would import graphics from other packages, Corel Draw is
a graphics package.  To use PP as a graphics utility or to use CD as a pres-
entation utility would be like using your shoe to hammer in a nail.  It works
but why bother?

FLAME OFF

