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To: Kashish King who wrote (5072)	4/9/1998 12:41:00 PM
From: Dave Berehowsky	Read Replies (1) of 9798

1) They haven't demonstrated the ability to develop software of their own making in the last several years and that's especially true of object-oriented software (read: modern). Corel software is reasonably decent. The software shipped by Rational Software (supposedly OO gods) isn't much to brag about either. They have a severely flawed development process and they don't have a core asset of reusable building blocks. That approach was evident in their childish attempt to build a Java-based office pack. That failed attempt also demonstrated their abject incompetence in terms of software analysis and design. How bad? Since they punted completely we'll never know. Possibly, otoh it wouldn't have been the first time engineers were forced to work on something that made no sense. What is Oracle's excuse for Hat Trick? We shouldn't be so quick to associate Corel's financial woes with unskilled engineers. Microsoft was (still is?) a heavy recruiter at the University of Waterloo in Ontario for software engineers. I don't believe Bill Gates is unhappy about how his canadian warmed over dos hackers helped make him filthy rich. Also, the java god, James Gosling, is a canadian.

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