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To: i-node who wrote (4976)	6/20/2000 1:39:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) of 5102

The first releases of Borland C++ and Delphi and JBuilder were virtually unusable. My direct experience with that was corroborated by several individuals on this thread, one of whom called JBuilder 2.0 an alpha release at best. To state that there are seldmon flaws indicates that you do not use these products except perhaps to read the back of the CD jacket. Your statement has no value and no truth to it: it is antithetical. I realize you will deny that and resent my making that observation, but Inprise products are often not even usable on the first one or two releases. Microsoft is very quick to fix bugs and their knowledge/technical database is second to none. Borland dropped the ball on that, totally, many years ago, and the MSDN is responsible for a lot of the popularity of Visual Studio. That might be a moot point given they are into release 3.5 of their latest language product, but it's not moot at all. They have a process problem, a serious one, and it impacts the quality of incremental releases and products like their Application Server. As for the design of the IDE and design in general, I did not bring up anything about those issues so I won't bother responding to that, except to say that they do have a good design. I think JBuilder combined with the Application Server and copious collateral material are a powerful combination. We'll see how they execute on this opportunity. BTW, I was in the Barnes and Noble computer section today. They don't have a C++ section anymore; they have a rack of Java books with a formal Java heading above the isle. Their C++ books are sprinkled in with the Java stuff. 20 percent or so are language books, the rest APIs and other related Java technologies.

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