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To: David W. Taylor who wrote (1125)	9/6/1998 4:34:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

I'll just disagree that I'm adding so much vitriol to the style of the message that you send as the the substance but when I figure out what you were fumbling to say there I'll rethink it. I don't have time to mince words and think we have more than our share of prissy butt kissers around here. My comments are always emphatic and direct; they're also accurate. Getting back to the subject, Inprise has a crisis-level production problem with JBuilder and they need to bring in outside assistance; clearly the people they have are clueless. I want to correct a few things I said earlier: I don't think JBuilder is sub-alpha quality, rather, it's the sort of product which any self-respecting software developer wouldn't let out of his or her cubicle. It's that bad. My worst fear is that they will see this as a buggy product instead of seeing it for what it is: a dismal development process. That's enough for now, I've wasted enough time talking about this worthless outfit. Mark my words, these problems will spell the end of Inprise. After the silly name change, the embarrassingly trite Infonet and disastrous acquisition of Visigenics (including the comment-free resignation of its leader) I should have realized they were firmly on the road to continued incompetence. Thank God for Microsoft.

To: David W. Taylor who wrote (1125)	9/6/1998 4:43:00 PM
From: Mark Bracey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

David, Have you tried the JBuilder 2 patch. If so, I guess it didn't make any difference. I have Delphi 4 and it was bad when first released. But they came up with a patch fairly quickly that makes it useable. My biggest complaint now is that it doesn't restore my debug windows (watch, call stack, locals, etc.) when I load back in a project.

To: David W. Taylor who wrote (1125)	9/7/1998 1:25:00 PM
From: Rick Kawala	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

>You are correct about the quality of JBuilder though. I have tried >to use it twice (1.0 and 2.0) and it is frankly unusable. I've been using 2.0 for the last couple of weeks. I think "unusable" is a bit harsh, because I'm actually managing to get work done with it. It beats debugging with the JDK debugger, that's for sure. It's true, however, that it sometimes crashes, that keyboard shortcuts are sometimes ignored, that the context-sensitive editor sometimes lies, etc. At the very least, Borland should offer us a free service pack or something. Best, Rick