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Technology Stocks : INPR - Inprise to Borland (BORL)
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To: Gary105 who wrote (3446)11/21/1999 10:46:00 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 5102
 
2a. any thoughts on msft using inpr as backdoor linux entry?

I'm not sure why the term "backdoor"... A significant aspect of Linux popularity will be the availability of the powerful tools we now have under Windows.

To date, no one (I repeat NO ONE) makes tools of the caliber Borland (now Inprise) does. Period. In addition, as someone who has followed this company for years, I can point to Microsoft's unfair practices as the principal reason for Borland's recent problems. If you look back to the days of Paradox and Quattro Pro, you see the better products (Borland's) defeated by the unfair price competition -- where MSFT was allowed to sell its competing products for below their costs in order to drive Borland out (they were successful). In the Linux marketplace, it does not appear at this time that a similar threat exists.

So, I take issue with the term "Backdoor". I think the manufacturers of these kinds of software tools will drive Linux, not merely tag along.

Don't know about item (1) of your question, but my recollection is that MSFT took no stake in INPR -- they simply purchased the rights to Borland's patent for technique used in BCB and Delphi of allowing the editing of forms as plain text and maybe some lesser stuff.
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