[johnvanommen]

I wonder if that's the reason that Corel acquired Xara back in the nineties?

I discovered the program around 1995, after Corel acquired them. I figured it would be a 'cheap' version of Corel Draw. Instead, it was quite a bit better! Particularly for the time, there was nothing faster that I was aware of. (In 1995 memory was prohibitively expensive, and Xara was very efficient.)

I still use it to this day, though the software reverted back to it's original owner long ago.