company A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw

application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland,

Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration

company. In January 1989, however they entered the software

publishing market with the introduction of CorelDraw. Corel

became the second largest maker of personal productivitysoftware in January 1996 when they purchased the

WordPerfect family of software from Novell, Inc..