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

To: Shane Stump who wrote (8469)	1/9/1998 10:57:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

I think what the review is missing is IBM's response which is: we meant to do that. That is, they have focused on the delivering core functionality used by most people, most of the time, while leaving out noise-level features. The Java 1.2 version, along with the actual release version, should be much complete a very nice package. In addition to the $49 subscription price, there is a $1500 developer pack which allows you to build your own extensions and integrate these Java components into your own applications. I'm going to reserve any final judgement until a) it's released and b) we have it in our office. What I can tell you is that it offers me an extensible alternative to Microsoft Office.

To: Shane Stump who wrote (8469)	1/9/1998 10:59:00 AM
From: Lewis Edinburg	Respond to of 10836

Does anyone have any comments/explanation of why (after Del announcing that earnings will meet or exceed the analysts' expectations) BORL is up a half point on brisk volumes but VSG has almost no activity in its stock. I'm sure this must mean something but I can figure out what.

To: Shane Stump who wrote (8469)	1/9/1998 11:04:00 AM
From: david thor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10836

Shane, Reading that article doesn't answer the question I've had, and I think Rod touched on a couple of weeks ago, which is whether Java 1.2's performance will be significantly higher. If Borland can make improvements in this area, there's a lot of money to be made there and it's why I think we have to be attentive to what they are doing and what the competition is doing. I'm just starting to dabble in Java now, as my time permits, but I've already seen how slowly Java applets run and I think performance is holding back development (although what I've read indicates Java's acceptance is high). Dumb question: what alternatives to Java are there, besides Visual Basic? Regards, Dave

To: Shane Stump who wrote (8469)	1/9/1998 7:45:00 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10836

Any comments? eSuite is about what you'd expect. Java just isn't here yet, and it is going to be another year, maybe two, before it can be used in serious production software. It is significant that eSuite omits some of the features people have become very accustomed to having -- spell checking, for example -- a feature that is going to be tough to implement in any efficient manner in the Java environment. In evaluating JBuilder as a possible language choice, I've decided [I think] our companies won't use it for the time being, absent some extremely compelling situation demanding platform independence -- of which we have little need. In some ways, I don't see it as a step forward, but rather, as a step backward. Aside from obvious efficiency considerations, there are structural aspects I don't care for as well as language constructs that drain efficiency while contributing little. Sorry, I just don't see what everyone is so damned excited about.... Now, Rod, it's going to be tough, but don't take this as a personal attack ---