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

To: Kashish King who wrote (5033)	8/21/2000 2:09:37 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 5102

Inprise Responds to Worthless Download "By offering the free Turbo Debugger we hope to make users of the free Borland C++ Compiler even more successful" said Ben Riga, Director of Product Management at Inprise/Borland. "With more than 500,000 downloads of the free Borland C++ Compiler, the positive response from the C++ developer community has been resounding. Open Source and corporate developers are praising the Borland C++ Compiler for its high quality, lightning-fast performance, and tight compliance with the ANSI standard." Anybody with the capacity to spell C++ knows enough to not waste their time with a compiler that doesn't have a debug facility. This is the sort of issue that earns Inprise management a Dunce Cap. Now, after an overwhelming "are you people stupid" barrage, they have decided to include the debugger? Please get out of the way and bring somebody in who knows which was is up. Inprise is incrementally giving away its technology because they can't sell it. They have a golden opportunity to seed the development community with JSP tools if they want to give away something that might actually bounce in terms of follow-on revenue. Inprise management has no idea of the importance of JSP: they think it's just another TLA on the list of TLAs they don't understand.

To: Kashish King who wrote (5033)	9/22/2000 3:36:53 AM
From: David Miller	Respond to of 5102

Rod, thanks for the insight into Anders' C# apologia. I am insufficiently technical to draw the conclusions you did. Unfortunately, this also disqualifies me from using them in discussions. Could you please revisit your post, and encapsulate the contradictions into a paragraph that a salesman can understand. And let's be clear on this, you can be as insulting as you like as to what level of explanation that criterion requires.... david