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

To: dana ingram who wrote (4836)	4/29/2000 2:18:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Borland changed it's name to Inprise in attempt to run from it's past reputation: in stark contrast to what the pom-pom waving diehards claimed the reputation was. It was an admission of a perception problem and the solution was to appear different, rather than actually fix the problems. The problem isn't the world-class language tool design, it's the white-trash implementation that has customers alpha-testing their products. It's the rank amateur support infrastructure (IMO) and poor collateral material. So what does Corel bring to the table? Take Borland's reputation, such as it is, and take it down a notch. Take the square root, to be precise, and that's where Corel leaves you. I wish it were different, but nothing I've seen makes me believe my opinion of that company is anything but right on target. BTW: I am glad to see INPR and CORL investors are going to get a very nice bounce on Monday. The problem is making it last. Of course, if you're underwater it doesn't always matter by how much.