On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:38 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/2/2011 5:41 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: >> Never did much with the Pascal but with Turbo C I did. Borland used to >> be great, shame they fumbled it so badly. > > > > What was their reason for failure?
My theory: They were mainly technical people and not marketing people. They reinvented a lot of wheels just because they were smart enough to do it (e.g., the proprietary build technology that shipped with BDS until Embarcadero said 'nuff of that crap, let's just use something standard). I think they spread themselves thin jumping into the Java bandwagon where they never had a chance to compete with the big boys, then developed pretensions of being all about the enterprise instead of all about independent developers. The whole Inprise thing was a fiasco. They priced their product like an enterprise product but, predictably, never got the uptake in the enterprise they needed to compete with the four or five 800 lb gorillas already in that space. I still think pricing wise they have their heads up their posteriors -- the very nice DataSnap technology of recent releases, which I would use like crazy if I could afford it, is part of the (rather costly) enterprise and architect packages. If they had the brains to put that in the pro edition, they'd sell way more copies. That kind of thing. Embarcadero seems to be doing more good, sensible things, but I doubt they'll be changing any games unless they... I don't really know what they could do besides start pricing the product and getting it in the hands of developers who can't afford the 'enterprise' stuff... which is a lot more people now than, say, 10 years ago, when the fractional reserve banking farce gave everyone (including people who should know better, like Congress, the Fed, et al.) the impression that money grew on trees. - Publius > > -- > Mike Babcock, MCP > MB Software Solutions, LLC > President, Chief Software Architect > http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com > http://fabmate.com > http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAEUt0LBc-R=e4fvghsyuubtarfmqgubydmsk1o-_ootiy_1...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
