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To: i-node who wrote (619)	7/23/1998 11:16:00 AM
From: Bipin Prasad	Respond to of 5102

DR, I admire your patience. Del is lucky to have an investor like you. later, InSook

To: i-node who wrote (619)	7/23/1998 11:18:00 AM
From: TTOSBT	Respond to of 5102

Re: "Apparently, people around here don't remember where Borland was a short 2 years ago" David you have referred to Borland no less than 5 times in your explanation of how Del has turned things around etc. That in itself shows how much respect, knowledge, awareness and acceptance even the understanding supporters of Del/Inprise have right now, and the way things are going. TTOSBT

To: i-node who wrote (619)	7/23/1998 4:41:00 PM
From: Karen Boucher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5102

I agree - if you compare where Borland was at before Dell to today - he hasn't done so bad. Anyways, after a major purchase - such as acquiring Visigenics - I've noticed it seems to generally take about a year for a company to fully recover. I do disagree with your assessment of Java though - we (I work for The Standish Group) recently completed the compiliation of survey data from more than 367 IS Managers and found that the use of Java has increased dramatically in the last year - it is in fact the #2 language for new application development (behind C++ and slightly ahead of Cobol). The Inprise products are now clearly focusing on the top two languages - not a bad plan.