Increasingly, Microsoft finds itself under attack from Linux software vendors, which have seized the free software strategy the company employed to usurp Netscape Communications from its perch atop the Web browser market. As the Linux community continues to grow, more and more users are looking for graphics offerings." "By providing our powerful graphics applications for the Linux platform we hope to assist in encouraging even more users to incorporate Linux in their existing workflow.
"This new release is a natural extension of our current award-winning Linux offerings," said Ian Legrow, the vice president of software development at Corel Corporation. Photo-Paint 9 will also be included in an upcoming release of the CorelDraw for Linux graphics suite. Like WordPerfect, however, only the Linux version of Photo-Paint is free Windows users must purchase a copy of the software. The decision to release the fully functional version for free follows the company's strategy for WordPerfect Office, an integrated suite of productivity applications that competes with Microsoft Office. In its latest bid to unseat Microsoft Corporation, Corel Corporation announced that a version of its popular Photo-Paint 9 photo editing, image composition and painting application will soon be made available to Linux users for free.
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