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RANDOM EXCESS: The Wild Ride of Michael Cowpland and Corel, Ross Laver; $32 cloth 0-670-87972-X, 272 pp., 6 x 9, Viking Canada, Nov. Reviewed from finished book
In the rapidly changing world of computers, no Canadian company has made a bigger splash than Ottawa's Corel Corporation. Led by Mitel founder Michael Cowpland, the company surged into the headlines as business reversals caused its staff to depart and its stock prices to plummet.
Ross Laver, a columnist with Maclean's magazine, chronicles the story in this entertaining...