Digital will cut 7,000 jobs within the next 12 months. The Canadian government admitted that it gave Microsoft a multi-million dollar contract over Corel even though its software met all the requirements and was cheaper. Corel insists its software works, but that the government staff had been working with older versions. Aggressive expansion into new markets such as the U.K. had caused storage and supply problems. Content providers who joined the Web gold rush find themselves tumbling down a long, dark mine shaft.
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