RE: [DUG]: TurboPower announces withdrawal from retail business - Open SourceInitiative

[Kyley Harris]

Title: myOffice Email Message

maybe they are now rich and are just retiring because they aren't greedy?? you don't really need to run a business forever. and if they were doing that then open source is the only true initiative to get out of supporting the paying customers

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary T. Benner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:53 p.m.
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: [DUG]: TurboPower announces withdrawal from retail business - Open SourceInitiative

HI all,

Interesting decision? Looks like they're closing up this shop - well their owners (see end of press release) are.

Turbopower have been a consistently good supplier of addons to Borland tools since the original turbo pascal days.

Kind regards

Gary

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TURBOPOWER DISCONTINUES RETAIL BUSINESS

Company Announces Sweeping Open Source Initiative

Colorado Springs - TurboPower Software Company today announces their

immediate withdrawal from the retail component and developer tools

market. As part of the move, TurboPower announces its intention to

release their award winning component libraries as open source to the

maximum extent possible.

"We've been a big part of the developer community for nearly 18 years,"

said TurboPower President Gary Frerking. "Open sourcing our products

seems like an appropriate gesture of appreciation to the community that

supported us so well over the years. We sincerely hope these products

take on a life of their own and continue to prosper for many years to

come."

TurboPower's component libraries cover a wide spectrum of development

needs including compression, serial communication, faxing, Internet

communication, scheduling, data entry, encryption, and XML

manipulation. There are nearly twenty commercial-quality libraries

being considered for release, containing hundreds of components and

thousands of classes and routines - over one million lines of source

code in all!

The process of preparing the libraries for release to open source is

already underway, and the current goal is to have the libraries

released to the maximum extent possible by the end of January. The

resulting open source projects will be hosted on SourceForge.net, an

online open source repository.

Additional information can be found on TurboPower's website at:

http://www.turbopower.com

Colorado Springs - TurboPower Software Company today announces their

immediate withdrawal from the retail component and developer tools

market. As part of the move, TurboPower announces its intention to

release their award winning component libraries as open source to the

maximum extent possible.

"We've been a big part of the developer community for nearly 18 years,"

said TurboPower President Gary Frerking. "Open sourcing our products

seems like an appropriate gesture of appreciation to the community that

supported us so well over the years. We sincerely hope these products

take on a life of their own and continue to prosper for many years to

come."

TurboPower's component libraries cover a wide spectrum of development

needs including compression, serial communication, faxing, Internet

communication, scheduling, data entry, encryption, and XML

manipulation. There are nearly twenty commercial-quality libraries

being considered for release, containing hundreds of components and

thousands of classes and routines - over one million lines of source

code in all!

The process of preparing the libraries for release to open source is

already underway, and the current goal is to have the libraries

released to the maximum extent possible by the end of January. The

resulting open source projects will be hosted on SourceForge.net, an

online open source repository.

Additional information can be found on TurboPower's website at:

http://www.turbopower.com

Based in Colorado Springs, CO, TurboPower Software Company is a wholly

owned subsidiary of Aristocrat Technologies Inc., a leading

manufacturer of high-technology solutions for the gaming industry.

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