> 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.
I think the reasons for changes have been attempts at generating the
profits. Remember, if you keep doing what you're doing you'll keep getting
what you've got. Borland have been trying to change their image in an
attempt to generate money. At the same time they have a customer base who
continually complain about the high cost of their products. They haven't got
an easy line to walk.
> Once good reason for a merger is to get some cash, something Borland
> desperately needs.
I understood Borland has plenty of cash. It was Corel who needed cash, and
that's why they wanted the merger with Borland (IMHO). What would you have
them do with the cash they 'desperately need'?
> ... a hostile take-over is not far away....
> the hostile force could be MS (only for Delphi) or maybe even Oracle.
I can imagine Oracle buying Borland. It would be quite a good move for them,
given the JDeveloper and Visibroker links that already exist.
> Either way, something will have to go and I suspect the Kylix project is
> seriously under threat.
Why on Earth do you think that? Technically it can't be going too badly if
they're running events for component developers in the USA, and there is
some kind of world tour going on giving demos (even if it doesn't get here).
Financially it's got to be a good way to attract investment (Linux being
'The Next Big Thing' (tm))
What should they be doing instead?
Cheers,
Kerry Sainsbury (who *is* now an ex-Inprise employee, but only because he
wanted to write more code :-)
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