Corel has sold a 50,000 user license for Word-Perfect to the US Department of Justice.
Much crowing about Corel’s sale to the US Department of Justice of a 50,000 user license for Word-Perfect, though we’re not sure how much of a big deal this really is.
WordPerfect has long had a place for the legal community with their exacting standards of formatting for documents and the glacial move to electronic filing and exchange of information. So the DOJ is sticking with what they know and in all probability this sale is more like an upgrade of some existing sites to the latest version, rather than any massive new deployment.
We’d love to see more vibrant competition in the office suite sphere, but it’s a sign of how lopsided the market is when a 50,000 license sale is worthy of a press release from Corel. Microsoft probably sell that something like that many copies of Office each day and consider it to be pretty normal.
