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

To: David W. Taylor who wrote (1136)	9/8/1998 4:32:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 5102

As long as we are mentioning better Java tools, I like those from this small tool vendor: tek-tools.com It is weird to plug this on the Inprise board, but I've lost so much money on this pig over the last five years I'll probably trip down to Santa Cruz to dance a jig when they finally expire. Of course I wouldn't be so pissed if I hadn't once backed Borland to the hilt, only to be screwed blue by P.K. and co. I thought Del would be better, and maybe he is, since I don't see grounds for actual litigation yet, and he's eaked out a small profit short term. But that's all. The new name sucks, and the 'enterprise' strategy strikes me as bad timing mixed with marketer-speak. In reference to the above discussion, they seem to be still building products with a retail level of bugs or greater, and you can't do that with enterprise products, IMO. Still, give them one more decently up quarter, and the price decline might reverse. I just hope they didn't get their last plus quarter by laying off QA. All assuming the market stops tanking at some point. I just don't see that happening so quickly with the Demos now joining the Clinton hunt. That makes a lot of folks nervous. Folks with jobs and market accounts. On the bright side, people with real money can watch those nervous nellies get laid off, then buy them and their stock at half price next year. Cheers, Chaz