Will Photoimpact 12 be replaced by Corel

[jolo]

I just came on the web site to see if there are any patches for Photoimpact 12.
I then was surprised to see that Photoimpact has been taken over by Corel.

My reaction is NOT positive or negative, but what is going to happen to Photoimpact.
To me it doesn't make sense for Corel to support similar products.
I am extremely skeptical, going on experiences from other mergers/takeovers in all fields of business.

Does anyone know what the policy will be as far as the future of Photoimpact 12 goes ?

• Does anyone know what the policy will be as far as the future of Photoimpact 12 goes ?
• Will Corel want us to migrate to a "Corel product" ?
• Does anyone know what the real plans are ? Sometimes the Corporate "line" is not what really is in the plans. I am just being realistically synical. I never was a Corel customer, so I am not aware of the Corporate style of Corel.
• I generally despise Corporate mergers and takeovers, since they lesson competition and less competition reduces jobs and the need for a product to put money into R&D and support efforts, quality control simply because the customers has less choices. The IT world in general, with Microshaft "Rotten to the Core" Apple, killing off competition, and most IT markets seemingly never having more than two (if that many), competitive products in a IT hardware or software sector.
• I certainly cannot say if the Corel takeover will be positive or negative for us.
• Maybe Corel will NOT use element-5 (or whatever that companies name is) for online order fulfillment anymore, which I would view as a very positive result.
  I personally am not aware of any mergers/takeovers that have had positive effects on consumers, employees, product quality, support and R&D efforts. However, they tend to have very lucrative effects on Executive Management. I am hoping.

[heinz-oz]

Why don't you ask Corel? They should know We are just user like yourself. Your guess is as good as ours.

For your information, Corel have not taken over PhotoImpact, they have taken over the whole of Intervideo who previously took over the whole of Ulead.

[jolo]

Why don't you ask Corel? They should know We are just user like yourself. Your guess is as good as ours.

For your information, Corel have not taken over PhotoImpact, they have taken over the whole of Intervideo who previously took over the whole of Ulead.

It is great to hear from my friend from down under.
Heinz, how are you ??

I understand that Corel purchased Intervideo, which already owned Ulead.

Someone made a point that I to concur with. I believe that we are all extremely fortunate that the buyer was NOT Adobe. Inflated, Over-rated software and radically inflated prices.

I think the coo for
Corel is that not on the Photoimpact end, but in getting all of that top or near top of market, all encompassing video tools. I think there will be a large marketing push and a focus on all of the Video tools from Intervideo and Ulead. That really gives Corel some real diversity. Also, Ulead is a stable company in its own, therefore its not like they will have to pour lots of dollars into it.

i think that it would make sense to merge the graphics, digital photo editing tools. Probably the Corel graphics/illustration/art/digital photo products and Uleads have their own sets of strengths and weaknesses.

From a business point of view, I think Corel will be paying more attention to integration of the video technology, before the digital graphics technology. I would like to see an offering that offers a full high level multi-media line of products, that will handle digital graphics, video and web design. A do it all type of tool, where inexpensive add-ins could be purchased for customers that want to get more complex or want to focus on one multi-media discipline.

I think it will take a while before things really start to shake out, do you agree ??

Jon

[heinz-oz]

@ jolo

all is well down under.

I tend to differ from your assessment of the current situation though. I fail to see where it would make a difference to us whether Corel or Adobe took over The fact remains that there have already been announcements made, indicating that Corel intend to favor the entry level market segment and drop the pro-sumer line of products. That, I'm afraid, will be the end of the line for me at least as far as video editing goes.

[sjj1805]

I dont have any details of anticipated release dates, but I was asked some time ago for some input in relation to PhotoImpact 13 so my guess is it is being kept on the production line.

[jolo]

@ jolo

all is well down under.

I tend to differ from your assessment of the current situation though. I fail to see where it would make a difference to us whether Corel or Adobe took over The fact remains that there have already been announcements made, indicating that Corel intend to favor the entry level market segment and drop the pro-sumer line of products. That, I'm afraid, will be the end of the line for me at least as far as video editing goes.

Heinz,

I know some insiders knowledge of Adobe, but their products are overpriced with loads of overhead. They have "owned" the graphics market for years with their MAC products and not the most customer friendly on those products as well.

I still think the big item for Corel is the Video piece of getting the Intervideo video players and the Ulead video editing products. They now have a complete lineup of multimedia products.

I think it probably will take at least a year, to see what will be happening, but I still feel that the initial focus will be on the Video end, not the digital graphics/photo end.

In theory though, I would like to see more companies coming out with more products and more competition in the software marketplace.

In general I do everything I can to use nothing from Microshaft and Rotten Apple. People think that they compete, but they really don't. Microshaft owns a large chunk of the Rotton Apple.

We will see what occurs. I hope there is job stability for the Ulead Techs.

Jon