Robert, > There's very little I hate more than being directly lied to. I > never tolerated it from my children, and they stopped trying at a very young > age, unfortunately I wasn't around when the new CEO of Borland was raised! > His very words, "I'm not here to sell the company", are indicative of a > problem that has been festering at the heart of the Borland Company for > many, many years, and that is that they don't give a dam about their > products, the developers who have bought them for all these years, or even > their own employees who made some of the greatest strides in modern > programming history!
I have to disagree with you, although I too hate liars (and we have one of the biggest in history as the President of our country, the USA). I think it unfair to accuse the CEO of lying when you have no way of knowing for certain what his original intention was. The change of direction at TurboPower was serious "writing on the wall," in my view. And then Delphi Informant folded, a particularly sad moment for me. So in a sense, this could be seen as the next logical step, like it or not (and few if any of us like it). The marketing comments made in other discussion threads are very correct; but that is old news. What all of us are facing is, in my view, a most difficult world economy, exacerbated in large part by the selfish cruel idiots running the United States, my country. The USA has been taken over by the War Party, who have put half of this country's resources into illegal and ineffective conflicts in the middle east (still more to come in March I am afraid) profiting a small group of war profiteers and mercenaries. I can tell you as a University Professor who has received few raises in recent years that my own standard of living continues to decline. And I hear and see the same all around. But few understand the situation (unless they spend a lot of time on the Internet) because the corporate media in this country is controlled by the same fascist group the controls Washington. But on a more positive side, technology continues to grow, and that is the good news. But in these challenging times companies have to be creative and have to be willing to make touch decisions if they want to survive. Read David I's statement that started the whole discussion. While I think he may be overly positive, if you read it carefully you begin to understand that Borland had no more of a choice about this then TurboPower had earlier. I too would like to see Borland just open source the whole line of products just as TurboPower did with most of their products. But we'll have to wait and see. The best news is that we still have a community out there, even if the flagship on which we have been riding for a long time is about to change direction. Best wishes, Alan C. Moore __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
