Ponder over this:
The Corel / Inprise merger is off. M$ BUYS Inprise. Delphi is renamed to
VB! We all start to write code like MyHeader!Items["Header
Caption"].Caption! Disgruntled employees then leave to form a company to
write Kylix (or some other cough mixture name). M$ sues them for $$$. Then
M$ gets split up!!!
Seriously, I don't really care either way. Is Kylix really going to take
off or is it going to be eclipsed by Java? Is that the right direction for
Inprise? Inprise should look at its past; Delphi is a great tool (heaps
better than VB), yet there are more VB developers out there. One has to ask
why?
Regards,
Dennis.
> -----Original Message-----
> Good call, Dennis :), hopefully they would be better than the
> current crop
> of Delphi icons/bitmaps.
>
> Anyway, I agree with Richard - what do people think? I'm not
> sure if we are
> allowed to comment (its usually "please refer everything to
> Ray"), but I for
> one am interested what our customers have to say, even if we
> can't talk back
> to them at the moment.
>
> My take on it, as a long time Borland customer/user before being an
> "employee": I dont care one way or the other*, but my order
> of preference
> yesterday (ie, pre collapse) was:
>
> *as long as Inprise continues to make top flight tools
> (Delphi/JB/Kylix
> :)/AppSever etc)
>
> 1) dont merge. I dont see what Inprise had to gain from it.
> 2) wait and see (ie, what was happening for the last few
> months) It sucked
> waiting to know tho.
> 3) merge, if you have to. See #1.
>
> I dont see what Inprise had to gain out of a merger (not
> takeover) with
> corel. I can see what Corel has to gain tho.
>
> Oh, well. Its unlikely to change the focus of the company (Linux /
> Enterprise), and interbase is still likely to be OpenSource,
> so if I left
> Inprise today (I'm not) and went back to be a non-affiliated
> developer (like
> everyone else other than Richard), I'd be a happy camper - my
> 4 favourate
> products (Delphi, IB, JBuilder, AppServer) on all the
> platforms I give a
> toss about (Windows and Linux).
>
> Just my 2c.
>
> N
> --
> Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
> Inprise/Borland New Zealand
> Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his
> chickens in his
> trousers?
> For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and
> worst, will he not
> disappoint the ladies in the village? --Alexi Sayle
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Dennis
> Chuah
> > Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2000 14:52
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: RE: [DUG]: So what do people think of the
> Corel/Inprise/Borland
> > not thing?
> >
> >
> >
> > Darn, I was looking forward to 100000 clip art and fonts with my
> > next Delphi
> > CD.
> >
> > Dennis.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > No comments so far.
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