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

To: i-node who wrote (4846)	4/30/2000 7:15:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Microsoft's uncanny ability to claim every stolen idea is in-house innovation. History is written by the victors. As for this AQ, a company with an office suite and an operating system, albeit a borrowed hack of Debian Linux, is bad timing. What's going on here is that Cowpland saw a company with real technology versus his own real-old technology. Cowpland also realized that Borland is capable of creating software, not just promising and then failing to deliver as they have so often done. Maintaining aquired products like Word Perfect and Quattro Pro (nice friendly marketing name they didn't have the sense to change) is not designing and delivering new products. I really can't think of a worse marriage than Corel and Borland. Even Jolt Cola would have made more sense. This really is ridiculous. Why is Borland paying to have it's name sullied by hooking up with a loud-mouthed CD stamper hawking warmed-over 80's bloatware and on the verge of collapse? I don't know, perhaps we should ask management. If the press reports of Corel's financial condition are accurate (I assume they are) then this deal is off. Corel simply used artificially inflated shares of it's own stock to grab 200 million dollars, without selling a share. This is outrageous. Borland now pays rent on what was a growing asset in their palatial campus. Now they want to hand over the proceeds to the red-ink bleeding Corel to finance one last swirl down the toilet? I don't think so.