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

To: David Miller who wrote (7984)	12/10/1997 8:06:00 PM
From: shane forbes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

RE: Oracle is reselling JBuilder (i.e. buying it from Borland, then reselling it as-is to its customers), rather than selling its own product that incorporates JBuilder code, and has a JBuilder look-and-feel? In the demo, here's what I saw. When opened up, the application looks exactly like JBuilder. Exactly. Exactly. Then he hit the File \| New and in the New Tab there are 2 additional types. Both involved wizards that made connecting to ORCL databases easier... Otherwise it was the exact IDE. If they used only JBuilder code and rebuilt the app from scratch they made it look awfully like BORL's JBuilder!!! So I would think they are using JBuilder as is + adding on certain wizards etc. If you want to call this "reselling" then so be it. Calling it "reselling" is much better (and closer to the truth) than implying that all ORCL did was use JBuilder's codebase... (In addition to what I said in my previous post, ORCL's enhancements support embedded SQL. BORL's C/S version may as well but I do not know. The other difference of course is in the middleware route - ORCL has their own version. Their enhancements also strongly support multi-tier development or at least that's their intention (may have got this one wrong). Don't know the extent to which BORL's C/S version supports multi-tier development.)