![]() ![]() While the company won't reveal the price it's charging, company executives said during Corel's most recent earnings call not to expect a significant increase in revenue from PC makers, or original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). While these deals have won Corel widespread attention for cracking Microsoft's presumed monopoly in office software, they won't have any immediate payoff for the Canadian company, which is practically giving the software to PC makers for free. Yet Microsoft has become one of Corel's chief targets as competitor, largely owing to recent deals with PC makers such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell Computer and Gateway, which replaced Microsoft's Works package on low-end consumer PCs with a limited Corel package that includes WordPerfect and the Quattro spreadsheet program. The company's fortunes began to sag in the late 1990s, and Corel was on the verge of collapse two years ago when Microsoft revived it with a $135 million investment that gave Microsoft a minority, nonvoting share in the company.
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