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Technology Stocks : INPR - Inprise to Borland (BORL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TTOSBT who wrote (3211)	7/19/1999 7:22:00 AM
From: Hans-Erik Eriksson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5102

Hi, I listened to Dale Fuller (CEO) speech at the Borland conference last night (it was broadcast live on the net). Nothing really revolutionary new, he announced Delphi 5 and Linux and Solaris versions of JBuilder and also mentioned support for another OS which probably is Mac. Also said new products were worked on in the labs, but didn't elaborate. He apologized repeatedly for the way that INPR had behaved towards it's customers in the past years, and was directly critical towards previous management (e.g. "we wont make any more expensive videos starring the CEO"). He said that his first 12 weeks had been spent with trying to get the internal moral up (didn't use those words), talking to shareholders, and talking to technical analysts (who had said that INPR has great technology, but lousy marketing). In the Q&A he was asked if there was a buyout in the plans, and answered that he couldn't answer yes or no to that. But that he did believe there was a much greater value in the future for this company, indicating that he is looking at a turnaround as his first option. Message he kept hammering in: Developers Rule! Speed Rule! Responsibility Rule! I believe there is a retransmission of the speech available at the Inprise site. I am typing this from memory, so above aren't exact quotes. Sounded good though, I'll think I'll hang in there with my holdings... Best, /Hans-Erik