Corel Corp. Purchases PSP

[Judi A]

Corel Corp announced today they purchased Jasc.

[Grafixman]

Is that good news or bad? Personally, I feel they should focus on improving their products, rather than playing monopoly with various apps.

[Mike S]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Judi A:
Corel Corp announced today they purchased Jasc. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

oh well looks like psp will turn into bloatware now. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[joroho]

So what will the relationship be between PSP and PhotoPaint?

.joroho.

[jon spain]

Yet, rather oddly, Jasc's website is silent

[covoxer]

If this is true, then it's a bad news for PSP.
Remember what Corel did to Xara?
And to Designer?
And now imagine what they will do with PSP, the needless alternative to Photopaint...
From this point PSP is dead http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Mike S]

this is a email i recieved from Jasc...Which is also posted on their website jasc.com


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.

Product Type Competitive Product Corel Product
Office Productivity Microsoft Office Standard: $399 WordPerfect Office Suite: $299
Graphics Suites Adobe Creative Suite Standard: $999 CorelDRAW Graphics Suite $399
Advanced Digital Photo Editing Adobe Photoshop: $649 Paint Shop Pro: $129
Digital Photo Management/Editing Adobe Photoshop Elements & Album: $149.98 Paint Shop Pro Studio: $79

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

[covoxer]

... yes, if there will be any 'next-generation Paint Shop products'... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Mike S]

There probably will but the program will go from a 100mb file to 400mb http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
oh well http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[covoxer]

Yes, and from the $130 to $400 http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

I think that Corel does not realy like to keep competing products growing up. Why to support PSP for $130 if it is much more profitable to kill it and continue to sell Corel PhotoPaint for any price? Adobe is far, far more expensive $600...
I whish I was wrong, but I think it's a good day to die for PSP.
Amen! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif