Friends, investors, developers, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Borland; not to praise it.
The errs that companies do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their press releases;
So let it be with Borland.
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The noble Berst hath told you Borland was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Borland answer'd it.
Here, under the leave of Berst and the rest -
For Berst is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honorourable men -
Come I speak to Borland's name change.
It was my company, faithful and just to me:
But Berst says it was ambitious;
And Berst is an honourable man.
It had brought many different tools from Scotts Valley;
Whose licenses did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Borland seem ambitious?
When that the poor developer had cried, Borland hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Berst says it was ambitious;
And Berst is an honourable man.
You all did see that in Delphi, C++ Builder and JBuilder,
We thrice presented it a kingly crown,
Which it did thrice refuse to accept: Was this ambition?
Yet Berst says it was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Berst spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love Borland once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn for its name change?
O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the URL there with www.borland.com,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
Jack Frosch
- forgive me William |
