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

To: i-node who wrote (9300)	3/5/1998 7:13:00 AM
From: Scott Pedigo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10836

In practically every arena where they have competed, the products have been superior. So what's the gripe? I agree Borland products have generally been superior, in both absolute terms and on a performance per price basis. But as several people have noted, BC++ 5.0 had poor quality. My gripe is that I bought it, installed it on a typical system, not some weird system, and it wouldn't even start up. Performance, features, and quality are not the same things. A high performance rocket may be able to lift heavier payloads than conventional ones, to higher orbits, but if every 10th one explodes on launch destroying the satellite, who wants it? OK, that was then, this is now. I still believe Borland can deliver the goods. * OFF TOPIC * PartitionMagic 3.0, DriveImage, DriveCopy Perhaps a more telling fact is that I found these products you liked so much to be some of the worst I've ever purchased. Pure crap. I don't have any vested interest in these products, or the company that produced them. I haven't found any actual bugs in them so far. They've done the job I purchased them for. I'm just curious: what was it about them that disappointed you? PartitionMagic let me easily resize (shrink) the C: partition on my 3.2 GB drive and add a new partition to use for experimenting with installing an operating system, utilities, and apps. DriveImage let me copy said partition at various stages of the installation process, and I one time already I have deleted the partition and restored from an image file. It is perhaps inconvenient that these utilities have to run in a DOS environment (i.e. boot from diskette to use them) but they require exclusive control of the drive to ensure that nothing is corrupted while they change critical information like the partition table and FAT. Users not technically inclined and not familiar with the details of the file system may find the issues confusing. So the tools are not suitable for everyday users. But for those who want to experiment, install multiple operating systems, etc. they are indispensable. Just because most people can't use a debugger (not being programmers) for example, or one of those timing lights for tuning up your car engine, doesn't means that those tools are crap.