Agreed. Borland went away from its core competency to enter into a market it was ill prepared for. It tried to recoup some of the costs and losses by upping the cost of the core developer's tool (Delphi) until it cost the value greater than the cost of a good second hand car. It's total focus away from the developer and it's huge cost of delphi meant that most NZ companies went away from Delphi to another tool that offered more, easier and cheaper upgrades. Boreland effectively killed the cash-cow through over-excessive milking.
Thankfully they are looking good to recover slightly, although regaining the customer base they had previously is probably now out of their range. Steve Peacocke On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Kyley Harris <ky...@harrissoftware.com>wrote: > "Really one reason Borland went broke is that they made an IDE that could > be > used forever.." > No.. they went broke spending tons of money buying 3rd party tools and > trying to sell them for a fortune to recoup the buy cost.. at the same time > they damn near abandoned the concept of putting out and supporting the Core > Development tools and focused on buggy integration tools with all the extras > they purchased.. > > They were doing great as a company for Programmers.. Tried to become a > company for lifecycle development and stuffed up. > > Still.. with Delphi 2007 I've been quite happy. > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:44 PM, John Bird <johnkb...@paradise.net.nz>wrote: > >> I think in general the upgrade policy has been quite generous, as others >> say >> other companies are much worse. >> >> Take Microsoft - As a Vista user of 1 year I get no reduced price upgrade >> to Windows 7. Vista is V6.0, Windows 7 internally is ictually Windows 6.1 >> and could be argued is not even a new version at all - they are as similar >> as Windows 2000 (V5.0) and Windows XP (V5.1) were. >> >> D2007 versus 7 - have to say the D2007 use of IDE screen is a lot better >> for >> a single screen on a laptop. And like others I have the D7 help loaded - >> actually the D2007 help is not so bad, just slow at times. >> >> Really one reason Borland went broke is that they made an IDE that could >> be >> used forever.. >> >> John >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >> Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz >> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: >> unsubscribe >> > > > > -- > Kyley Harris > Harris Software > +64-21-671-821 > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe >
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