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

To: Kashish King who wrote (3276)	8/24/1999 5:35:00 PM
From: John Solder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

What ever the resolution, any suitor will have it's stock hammered by WS when they announce they are taking on INPR. We will get a crappy stock swap deal, the takeover company will take charges for the aquisition costs and we will wallow for years to come.

To: Kashish King who wrote (3276)	8/25/1999 9:31:00 AM
From: Green Receipt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Inprise merging with rational would be a mistake. The only thing Rational has in its favor now is reputation. I am a user of the Rose and all I can say is that package is way overpriced $3600 a seat and some of its functions are better handled by 5 year olds. If you want to see how hard it can be to use take a look at geocities.com The help files are sorely lacking in examples and 'how to'. TO get anything complex done you have to write a script to manipulate the product. And if you actually purchase it and use it for large projects, simple functions like Rose's 'Layout Diagram' can be better done by telling a room of kindergartners to connect lines between boxes. If INPR merged with Rational, they would be inheriting all of Rational's problems. Rational seems to put the idea of fixing things last and getting new sales first.