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To: Aspect who wrote (667)	7/25/1998 1:30:00 PM
From: TChai	Respond to of 5102

I've read most of the msg in INPR/BORL thread over the years and I must take exception with your post. It's too well planned and too well scripted. Most people here just write from the seat of their pants. So who cares if Delphi is technologically a superior product? Technologists do care about technology. Computing is about technology. What's your motive anyway to go through the trouble of composing the post? Short sellers don't have secretaries to help them write. Why don't you tell us who you are and/or who hire you to join SI just to attack this company? What's your motive anyway because obviously you don't care about technology? It's not really important what the future holds for a particular technology (eg, Java, COM) or what the total revenue from that technology-based products will be. Are you concerned that Inprise is the only company that can make Java/CORBA development as easy as it can get? BTW, thanks for pointing out that INPR is the only company that has all the technology you mentioned in one place. They may or may not be leaders in any segments in terms of market share, but they are on their way to be a one-stop shopping for great technology.

To: Aspect who wrote (667)	7/26/1998 3:00:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

>>>As for C++, Microsoft Visual C++ almost essentially dominates the C++ market for Windows. How did that happen when Borland used to be the only C++ package on the market?<<< I think it went like this: Borland used to have one guy who was a real compiler genius. He made the IDE for C++ famous, wrote a great fast compiler and so on. Illustrative of the fact that being a star developer doesn't mean you're not going to get screwed by the political types in your department, he 'got caught in the layoff.' I got a chance to ream the new C++ team head and the VP of software (since departed) once over dinner about this, but of course that didn't really do any good, as I think they were the ones that wanted to 'shoot the prima donna' in the first place. Anyway, in reference to your comparisons to Symantec and Microsoft competitive compilers, I believe this guy first went to Symantec, and then to Microsoft, where he did the Win32 compiler version several years ago that was a such a major improvement. (This is all according to industry scuttlebut and trade rag gossip columns, plus what I was able to extract from those guys over dinner, but I can't be sure of all the details. And I don't want to name names. Inprise (still gag on that lousy name) folks feel free to correct this humble student of the software business. Or to name names, for that matter ;-) Anyhow, because somebody couldn't stand the success, status, untalented table talk (-1 on the schmooze-o-meter, no doubt), and goes-with-the-job-description giant ego of some star developer, now their two prime competitors have products that threaten to put them entirely out of those markets. All part of the extremely smart 'lets put the geeks back in their boxes' trend now so in vogue everywhere in software development companies. Hey, if JPL/NASA can do it to Jim (Mr-Saturn-Photos, Mr-Mechanical-Universe) Blinn for similar reasons, Borland can do it to it's most talented developers too, can't it. Who needs these damn programmers anyway? Cheers, Chaz