Corel Acquires Intervideo and, Indirectly, Ulead
Sunday September 10, 2006
I'd seen the recent news reports of Corel's acquisition of Intervideo, but until I read Foster Coburn's blog post about it, I hadn't realized that Intervideo was the owner of Ulead Systems. That makes Corel the new owner of Ulead PhotoImpact and Ulead's other software which includes video editing, DVD authoring, digital scrapbooking, and other digital media titles. As Foster notes, Corel is now the owner of five different photo editing titles. It will be interesting to see what they do with the Ulead product line. I think many of PhotoImpact's easy-to-use photo editing tools and effects would be a great fit with Corel's brand-new Snapfire product.
Related Articles:
• Corel Snapfire Announcement
• Ulead PhotoImpact XL Review
Comments
I guess that Corel owning Ulead means PhotoImpact will join the pile of unsupported software, such as, Paint Shop Pro? Have you tried to Corel? Ulead had terrible support before. JASC had great support for paint Shop Pro. I have outstanding service tickets that date back two years, and still no response. They never even looked that them or closed them out. I guess that also means both products will soon fall to the wayside, loaded with bugs, and soon to be priced to fit the Corel product line. Time to shop for shareware. Heck, That’s where I found Paint Shop Pro a long time ago.
Farewell old friends!
I agree just like Micsoft, sinmantec, all buy up good software makers and tweek the software with their logos and state of the art activations only to make the software get re-released and run like crap with no more support.