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To: Graham Wideman who wrote (4929)5/22/2000 11:34:00 PM
From: Kashish King  Read Replies (1) of 5102
 
I wonder if Inprise management knows they're bad management or if they think that's an attribute of some other company? What action has been taken to ensure they apply some level of basic common sense in the future?

In my opinion, and in the opinion of many, Corel represents the bottom of the barrel: a hollow hype machine living off crumbs left by Microsoft Office. What's puzzling is that I can't find a single professional analyst that has anything good to say about that company, which sort of backs up what was really common knowledge. Fuller was fleeced but I think he probably realized what a bonehead move he made (whatever that's worth) and suggested to to Corel that he wouldn't be supporting his own deal since it was clear he was swindled. That's my theory, for whatever it's worth.

As for JSP, that technology is clearly going to dominate dynamic web content. Yet here we have Inprise foundering with a world-class Java development tool, one of a handful of commercial ORBs and an Application Server while others clean up: BEA Systems, for example. I wonder if Inprise is of the opinion that BEA management is just lucky and that Inprise is unlucky. I suppose that beats facing up to the fact that they couldn't manage their way out of a paper bag.

Inprise needs to spend more money on developing support material, training real support staff (not search engine operators) and so forth. They need to give away that tool and sell add-ons, components, J2EE servers and even more importantly: consulting and support services. They're just repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Are they going to wait until there are 4 or 5 strong competitors or move while there are still 1 or 2?
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