atw: Re: Paint Shop Pro
- From: Stuart Burnfield <sburnf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:27:17 +0800
Presumably the thing Corel is actually acquiring is the large number of
Paint Shop Pro users, both for the future PSP upgrade revenue and for the
opportunity to sell them Corel Draw and other Corel products.
Two very similar bitmap editing programs is obviously one too many. When
Corel eventually ends up with a single product I expect it will look like a
hybrid of PSP and PhotoPaint, but more like PSP given that there are a lot
more PSP users than PhotoPaint users. Paint programs and the graphics
formats they support are pretty standard, so I doubt it will be a very
difficult transition.
As for Jasc's other products, if they're profitable and don't compete with
any of Corel's existing products they have a future, but otherwise they
could be looking at a trip to the river in a hessian bag. That seems to be
common post-takeover practice in the world of software.
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Stuart Burnfield
Information Developer
Australian Programming Centre
austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/11/2004 01:41:23 PM:
> I have just learnt that the Corel Corporation have bought Jasco
> Software, the makers of Paint Shop Pro.
>
> What next?
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