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I got this in my Inbox today. It will be interesting to see how this affects JASC's products, most notably Paint Shop Pro.
Or view it online
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October 14, 2004
To Valued Jasc Customers,
We are very pleased to share some exciting news with you that will deliver immediate benefits to valued Jasc customers. Corel Corporation, one of the industry's top ten packaged software vendors, today acquired Jasc Software, Inc.
This acquisition will yield real benefits to all Paint Shop customers. We intend to put the powerful R&D resources of the newly-combined companies behind the popular Paint Shop family, ensuring that next-generation Paint Shop products will continue to flourish. Finally, we will continue to provide service and support to all Paint Shop customers. Our primary goal is to ensure that your critical needs are effectively met.
Corel is best known for our graphics, office and personal productivity solutions, including CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, the WordPerfect Office Suite and the Corel Painter Natural-Media® painting and illustration software. With the addition of the Paint Shop family, we can now provide you a complete migration path from the most basic photo editing, organizing and sharing, to image improvement and retouching, all the way to advanced image editing and graphics creation.
An Expanded Product Portfolio At Very Competitive Price Points
Corel can offer you greater access to the most innovative, reliable and affordable packaged software portfolio in the industry. Our products rival other brands in quality, performance and reliability - but at a much lower cost to you.
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We are thrilled to add the Paint Shop family to our growing portfolio of packaged software products and we look forward to meeting your business and personal software needs with this expanded range of affordable products. Also, you can rest assured that the combined development resources of Corel and Jasc will drive significant product innovation well into the future. For more information, please review the press release and FAQ.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Jasc or visit www.corel.com.
Sincerely,
Amish Mehta, CEO
Corel Corporation
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Last edited by Kyrnt; 10-14-2004 at 09:29 PM..
Reason: Added links to the FAQ and press release
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