The U.S. Department of Justice has inked a five-year deal with Microsoft competitor Corel, worth up to $13.2 million, for more than 50,000 licenses of Corel's WordPerfect office suite, Corel announced this week.
The DOJ, which sued Microsoft in a monopoly-busting case that started in the mid-1990s, used WordPerfect before Monday's announcement, but Corel trumpeted the new deployment of WordPerfect Office 12 as reaffirming the software suite's number two position in the market, "despite hype around open source solutions," which includes OpenOffice.org.
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