RE: [DUG] Not sure what this means to developers

[Wilkin, Kurt]

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Jeez, those Inprise, ah I mean Ashton Tate, oh, Borland guys are just weird (oh, um, hi Richard :)   Why would you not do:  - Requirements Definition and Management (and heres a free enterprise license for Delphi)  - Lifecycle Quality Management (and heres a free enterprise license for JBuilder)  - Change Management (and heres a free enterprise license for C++ Builder   Like, as soon as the Delphi goes on the auction block its a dying language, until then its a (profit making?) loss leader. (Free licenses would bump up your usage numbers too, and people like what other people like).   (Hard to see not being able to make a profit out of it - surely a small team of  good(*) developers and a sales and a marketing dude could knock the worst of it out. Even at  the extreme that should be < 1m USD. Don't know how much you'd pay for a license in USD, but at $1k US you should be past breaking even at what, 1500 - 1800 licenses per year? Which'd be a single small-medium corp in US)   What are they going to do next - open source their rather profitable database product?   OTOH : getting close to the stage that that'd make sense now - rather more than it did 5 years ago anyway. If I was evil corporate overlord, I'd have tripled the price 5 years ago and taken some profit - changing databases is teh suck, and there was only about a 5 year window for making money off selling them. OTOH if I was the corporation I would've got some extra language features put in before I did that: "How do you do a microselectors in Oracle again? Does postgres have triple-mojo transaction mode?" :)   (*) good meaning: very f'in. Cheers, Kurt. --   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Sugrue Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2006 7:32 a.m. To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' Subject: [DUG] Not sure what this means to developers … but can’t help think this is a good thing for Delphi. Hopefully the company who takes over will do some decent marketing and listen to its clients (us)…   http://www.borland.com/us/company/news/Tod_Nielsen_customer_shareholder_letter_02-08-06.html       web: www.softwarex.co.nz blog: http://softwarex-nz.blogspot.com     This electronic message together with any attachments is confidential and intended for the named recipient's use only. If you are not the intended recipient (i) do not copy, disclose or use the contents in any way, (ii) please let us know by return email immediately then destroy the message, and any hard copies of the message, and any attachments. The sender of this message is not responsible for any changes made to this message and/or any attachments and/or connection linkages to the Internet referred to in this message after it has been sent. Unless otherwise stated, any pricing information given in this message and/or attachments is indicative only, is subject to change and does not constitute an offer to buy or sell securities or derivatives at any price quoted. Any reference to the terms of executed transactions should be treated as preliminary only and subject to separate formal written notification. Where reference is made to research material and/or research recommendations, the basis of the provision of such research material and/or recommendations is set out in the relevant disclaimer.

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