That is good news. Thats not a bad result considering (correct me if I'm wrong) that most of the income would come from the developer tools . It would be interesting to know how many other companies have made it big due to using Borland tools, one way or another, I.E Turbo Power et al. For what its worth, I much prefer Borland, I just can't get used to saying Inprise. (sorry Nic) -----Original Message----- From: Grant Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 27 July 2000 13:18 To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic Subject: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Borland doing well according to The Register From: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12178.html <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12178.html> _____ It's been widely assumed that because Inprise/Borland almost succumbed to Corel's caper, it must be awaiting another suitor. But a glance at its Q2 results shows that the venerable tools maker still knows which way is up in the developers' world, so maybe it's not. The company delivered a 16 per cent increase in revenue (to $47 million - compared with a loss of $10 million in the year-earlier quarter). Net income was $2 million, with the cash pile not only still intact, but increased to $244 million, mostly as a result of the sale of the Scotts Valley campus in March. The Q2 results are being described as a "turning point". Of course any company must be for sale at the right price, because of the fiduciary duty that directors have to shareholders, but Borland seems to have no need to merge with anybody at present. The atmosphere is one in which it has products to sell, rather than being itself for sale, and it is well-positioned to profit from e-business development. At the annual meeting yesterday, interim president and CEO Dale Fuller was given a 95 per cent vote of confidence for a further three year term on the board. Also announced yesterday was open-source Interbase 6, with free binaries for Linux, Solaris and Windows. An interesting twist on the Mozilla Public License being used is that developers are allowed to modify the code or develop applications without the requirement of open sourcing them, which looks like a shrewd move. Interbase's small footprint and fairly easy maintenance is proving to be attractive to developers. Delphi 5 also seems to be proving of increased interest, since unlike Visual Basic - which locks developers into the Windows platform - Delphi makes it possible to write now and decide later about the platform. The clincher could well be Borland's Kylix project, a RAD tool that makes it possible to write for Linux and port to Windows: it comes with Delphi and C++Builder. If there's anything that does need sorting out, it's the dual name of the company: perhaps it's time to drop Inprise in favour of Borland, which is what everybody seems to call it anyway. � _____ Grant Black Software Designer Information Tools Ltd Phone +64 9 488-0111 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web: http://www.infotool.com <http://www.infotool.com/> CAUTION - This message may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error please notify Progressive Enterprises Ltd. immediately via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Progressive Enterprises Ltd. This footnote also confirms that Progressive Enterprises Ltd. has swept this email message for the presence of computer viruses. This does not guarantee this message is virus free. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz
