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Technology Stocks : INPR - Inprise to Borland (BORL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ED_L who wrote (476)	7/14/1998 12:44:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

Keeping up with Inprise Powersoft has been at this for a long time and they have kept up better than I would have suspected for having yet-another BASIC language scripting tool with a few database hooks. As you know, Sybase purchased the company and they now offer Java and C++ tools. They've come a long way and today they claim almost 100,000 users. Whether only a half or a third of them are active users isn't clear. techweb.com If I'm not mistaken Delphi alone has over 500,000 users and lets not forget that Inprise doesn't have a database agenda to push. Inprise may be a small company but they dwarf the Powersoft arm of Sybase in terms of existing customers. Microsoft's tools are targeted toward SQL server whereas Inprise's tools are designed for optimal performance with IBM, Oracle or Microsoft back-ends. As far as Java is concerned, I don't see any common sense argument for buying Microsoft tools and Sybase is pretty much a me-too product. Anyway, Oracle and IBM seem to be pretty happy with the supportive, complementary direction of Inprise. Sybase isn't going to go out of their way to make DB2 or Oracle 8 look better than their own offerings with customized but developer-transparent interfaces, that's for sure.