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Technology Stocks : BORL: Time to BUY! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gerry Pince who wrote (7373)	11/15/1997 4:45:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

I am beside myself with joy (a little lower joy, there that's it) and I can tell you the announcement that Sun will be leading NOISE and all rational thinking software developers into the next century could not have come at a better time. Today I plugged in so-called reusable component that came with VC++ 5.0, none of the glaring show-stoppers I encountered were in 8 page list of documented bugs and all of the examples were written in Visual Basic. The process of importing this control generated no less than 24 new files which will have to be checked into source control. The magic dialog box editor plunked several pages of raw byte codes into my resource text file and I cannot do anything with this control outside of the resource editor. Microsoft has left C++ to swing in the breeze as they do everything in their power to deliver Visual Basic developers from the underlying mess they have created. They should support this proprietary stuff, but Borland must take a greater role in exposing the Visual Basic Only bent of Microsoft. It's a relatively new campaign, but it's a deliberate attempt to strap everybody to VB and further entrench Windows. The problem is it is so ugly it won't survive. It's truly disgusting software.