Unfortunately, having the best products does not gaurentee a successful
business. If I was a share holder in Borland, I would be mighty p.o'd with
the company - too many changes, too little profit.
Once good reason for a merger is to get some cash, something Borland
desperately needs.
Rant mode on
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My most pesimistic nightmare has taken a giant leep closer to reality - that
being the complete collapse of the company. Given the popularity of the
tools it's probably more likely that a hostile take-over is not far away....
the hostile force could be MS (only for Delphi) or maybe even Oracle.
Either way, something will have to go and I suspect the Kylix project is
seriously under threat.
>
>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.
...
>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).
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