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

To: david thor who wrote (7672)	11/23/1997 1:18:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 10836

Providing an easy-to-use API for TCP/IP support was critical for entry into the enterprise so they had to abandon their own lame networking technology. The important observation here is that Microsoft will use its brittle, badly designed and poorly implemented proprietary solutions unitl it sees a greater advantage with industry standard tools. Having adopted ODBC, they are now trying to move developers back into its proprietary interface versus continuing to improve and extent their ODBC interface components. After C++ started to take off, they realized that a high-level abstraction to Windows as a threat and they responded with MFC. When Microsoft sees an escape hatch, they respond. If that means adopting an open standard and transforming it into a proprietary solution later, they will do that. Microsoft knows that Java has the potential to blow a mile wide hole in their barn, and they are responding. They are embracing the Java language in case the Windows rug gets pulled out from under them in the enterprise. A critical mass of Java applications, tools, and APIs which are transparently optimized for Windows -- at the client end -- will leave the door wide open for IBM and others. What Borland can do is sell tools which are IN FACT portable to any Java environment.