just wondering .... when will coreldraw be available on linux?
today, corel is the only application which holds me back from switching
13 years has pass since this was written.. It would be great to see CorelDraw work on Wine, no need for Corel to develop a linux version, just make it work. Then Corel would know how the market place is.No check out Inkscape!! it has grown very much in the last years.Also see how Microsoft has join the Linux Foundation and created Azure in linux.
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Seriously, if you were the CEO of the company, would it seem a reasonable strategy to invest money in developing a version for a platform that has zero profit and that represents less than 5% of the market for decades? practically everything in Linux is free, so thinking about making a profit is impossible.
Mac is a more closed environment, but many designers use Mac, both MacOS and computers because they are very powerful and stable. Therefore, it makes sense to invest in a market segment with high purchasing power and where a large number of potential users are concentrated. None of that applies to Linux.
I am not against Linux. But I think it is a bad idea to pretend that Corel wasting time and money on a version compatible with Linux
I agree, making a version for Linux is a waste, I'll go as far and say the MAC version loses money.
I wonder what kind of sales figures Corel is generating with the Mac version of CorelDRAW. Since Corel is privately owned they don't have to report any of that to the public (or investors).I think it's worthwhile for Corel to develop and maintain a Mac version of CorelDRAW. However, I think their current licensing arrangement as it pertains to specific platforms is 100% blatantly stupid, both in terms of pricing and especially in terms of confinement to a given OS.In my opinion anyone who owns a license of CorelDRAW should be able to use either the Windows or Mac version at any time. If someone who has been using CorelDRAW on a Windows PC and wants to buy a new M1-based iMac and run CorelDRAW on that he should be able to do so without any additional cost. Download the Mac installer, use his account login and serial number and go. If Corel allowed that they would probably see a greater uptake with the Mac version. I don't think Corel is going to attract a lot of new customers who have been long time Mac users. I think Corel would see greater amounts of user growth from Windows users wanting to try migrating over the Mac platform. Currently such users are penalized by having to buy an entirely new CorelDRAW license to run CorelDRAW on a Mac. Not only that, they're either stuck having to pay for the very overpriced $249 per year subscription or pay $499 for a full version and another $159 for "upgrade protection" on top of that. I can't imagine many Windows users of CorelDRAW would ever stomach that cost penalty just to use CorelDRAW on a Mac. Corel's rivals don't force anything like that on their customers.
I've never seen the MAC version except for the very few users who post here. I agree that if they want to continue to support MAC they need to change their license agreement.
If I was an investor I'd have them take a serious look at the profitability of Darw and make a decision.
Yes, probably, but at least on Mac it is part of a strategy to reinforce Corel's presence on Mac. Corel has recently acquired Parallels, at the same time that it was developing the version of CorelDRAW for Mac. It also has other native programs for Mac, such as Painter or CorelCAD. In other words, even though it is a small market, it is a market with good purchasing power. Not everything refers to the percentage of profits, there is also an investment in prestige and popularity. In the same way that there are countries where the majority use CorelDRAW and others where it is used little, but Corel should not neglect those countries or regions where it is less popular.
However, developing a version for Linux is totally useless. It would be only to please a few users who want to have a good but free program. In relation to Inkscape, the fact that practically nobody uses it despite being free already says it all. Its main use is for SVG graphics for the web, therefore, no company in the world uses it as the main software for printing. It does not have even a 1% popularity in any ranking, although its defenders will surely say that this data is false or manipulated. Obviously, if you are in a community of users of a program, and every day you send and receive files from it with other users, you may come to believe that it is the reality all over the world, but no.
All the Linux and Unix systems I know are servers and they do a good job at that as work stations for general use they bomb.