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

To: Lewis Edinburg who wrote (3396)	11/10/1999 10:21:00 PM
From: Tom C	Respond to of 5102

Do you think that they will use the Beatle's song: You say you want a Webvolution, oh no... How about Webvolution number nine, number nine ... Tom

To: Lewis Edinburg who wrote (3396)	11/11/1999 5:53:00 AM
From: Bill Berggren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

I didn't think that the name change to Inprise was to fool people as you stated. The decline of Borland financially was the result of the illegal activities of MicroSoft, not an inferior product made by Borland. There was no reason to try and fool anyone about the Borland products or reputation. Microsoft played pure hell with Borland. The new name implied a renewed vigor.

To: Lewis Edinburg who wrote (3396)	11/11/1999 9:25:00 AM
From: Green Receipt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

One of the things Microsoft did to Borland that was particularly nasty was by using the same extension for its IDE files. Borland first was using .dsw files. When VC 5 came out (I believe it was 5) MSFT started using .DSW files. Thus if a developer installed BC++ and built programs, each IDE file for each program had a .dsw extension. Then if the developer installed VC, they reassociated the extension with VC. So if a programmer tried to open the file based on the 'association, vc++ started up. And even worse, the dsw that msft made was simply a shell it didn't do anything significant. In VC6 the dsw file has meaning. I'm pretty sure this was a tactic of MSFT to drive borland compiler share into the ground. I'm primarily a c++ builder user now, even though i have VC6. Builder is very powerful, much more powerful and OO than for what VC6 provides.