Any chance forwarding a letter on behalf of Borland NZ setting the record
straight. PC World is definately a Microsoft sympathising publication.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nic Wise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 December 2000 12:22
To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic
Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: December PC World
Ah! Nice little side-bar. Points:
"Heavy investment" was a lot of shares and a little cash of around $100
million total. We have over 350 million in cash in the bank. It was not a
"help out of the red" - we were never, AFAIK, "in the red", just not making
as much profit as we should have been. Borland has been in a very strong
position for a long time. I think I heard - not sure about this one - that
we can survive for about 3 quarters without selling a single SKU, and still
pay everyone. Nice.
Yes, we are trying to lure VB developers. Always have, always will.
Yes, we no longer refer to ourselves as Inprise, if we can help it. Locally,
we are having fun getting the borland.co.nz domain back and setup (yay! go
DOMAINZ!), but once it is..... New business cards on the way too - I just
hope they got a better designer than the last lot. :)
"imminent release" - yeah, if you consider 3 months "imminent" (ie 1
quarter) Qn always means _end_ of quarter n
MS poured 135 million into corel, and they are still going down the
tubes.... :) MS buys, on average, 2-3 companies per week - they have a few
billion to throw around, remember - even tho their share price has, I
beleive, fallen further than ours, %'age wise. :)
We have always supported what MS has done on windows (eg, COM) - I dont see
us changing from that - I'd expect COM+, ASP+, and .net support in Delphi 6
or 7 (maybe not the common runtime tho). Dunno about Kylix tho - v1.0 needs
to be out the door before any of these "extras" are added. Think v2.0
Anyone want me to tag on a forward looking statement? ie, all of the above
could be a load of crap, YMMV, etc. If its not announced on the web site,
then its mostly me guessing based on previous trends and some of what I've
heard (and can repeat) internally.
N
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Sugrue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 11:42 AM
Subject: RE: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: December PC World
> NZ PCWorld page 31, Under VB for Linux.
> Having re-read the item, I wouldn't rely on the fact the author got all
the
> facts correct. It is also stated that "Microsoft's recent manoeuvring in
the
> world of Linux" (talking about buying some of Corel). It is well known
that
> Microsoft are using the Corel programmers for .Net.
>
> Anyway this is coming from the publication that suggested Delphi exists in
> Why bother land!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nic Wise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 December 2000 11:39
> To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic
> Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: December PC World
>
>
> > > Has anyone read this months PC World? It has a news item on
> > > the imminent release of Kylix.
> > Nic might be able to comment more on this.... <g>
>
> NZ PCWORLD or the US edition? I get the NZ one free, being I'm working at
> IDG at the moment.... I havn't seen anything in NZ one. Kylix is a little
> way off, I think - dont plan on it before the end of Feb, tho nothing
> internally has been announced, aside from Q1 2001.
>
> Its a big job, dudes.....
>
> > Way I heard it, Borland took MS to court years ago because of the MS
> hiring
> > practise - basically headhunting key Borland employees (like Anders?)
> which
>
> yup, he got a good salary + about 3 million in either cash or shares (I
dont
> recall which). Not a bad signing bonus.
>
> > was affecting Borland Delphi development while kick starting the MS
> Cool/C#
> > project. I suspect at the time MS would have been happy to pay Borland
> > Delphi developers to sit on there hands while they tarted up VB <g>.
> After
> > the case dragged on for a few years the MS legal army, (who were busy
with
> > the DOJ & other lawsuits) settled out of court. The deal seemed to
> involve
> > MS pumping a few hundred million into Borland shares & Borland agreeing
to
> > use MFC & saying nice things about COM+...
>
> yeah, in involved MFC somewhere in there, I just dont remember how..... I
> know we can include it with BC++B now tho - I think (its been a long time
> since I've looked at BC++B)
>
> N
>
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