----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Hruska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Back when Borland merged with Inprise (eons ago), I got the distinct > feeling that something internally was going bad with the company. The
Umm, I think they renamed themselves - there was no merger that I'm aware of... The whole rename thing didn't work out well, so they eventually renamed themselves back. > company hasn't been the same since. It isn't so much that Borland > doesn't update their software - it has to do more with the _quality_ of > the updates. The changes rarely address the serious issues that every > serious user is _constantly_ hammering on about (bugs still exist in the > latest Delphi that existed back in version 3). When they are addressed, > they are treated as "features" and a new version than a patch. Some of > you are probably wondering why I am on this list. I'm not anti-Borland, > I'm just not as big a fan as I used to be because I saw my favorite > company slowly lose its ability to make a solid piece of software. <minor rant>I must admit I've also started becoming severely frustrated in certain respects. And yes, apart from some old bugs sometimes not being fixed, it also frustrates me that Borland don't seem to release service packs for older products when they do produce fixes - they only seem to ever release patches and fixes for the "current" version of Delphi. This means that you are often stuck with an older slightly buggy version (perhaps patched by yourself in some of the VCL sources) or the option to upgrade. If only Borland has been doing some of the things with Object Pascal that RemObjects have done with it in "Chrome"... Visual Studio is also growing in appeal to me... But anyway. Never mind eh? </minor rant> Walter ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/i7folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
