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

To: Cube who wrote (1138)	9/7/1998 6:45:00 PM
From: Maher Sid-Ahmed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Based on the fact that markets are up everywhere we may see a rebound on Tuesday. Inpr had received a buy recommendation from Hembrecht and Quist and maybe that buy recommendation will push this oversold issue to a reasonable level. I have not used the J Builder or Delphi products but I am impressed with their C++Builder. Nonetheless, here are some comments on J Builder which you can find on the Inprise site. I agree that Del is not the best CEO for INPR. The name change, the overpriced purchase of Visigenic, all has resulted in the condition of the stock today, which is the making of a CEO who cares nothing about the shareholders. I am still hopeful that INPR will rebound and see $12 before the end of the year. I would not bet too much money on this company myself. "Developers who want top-tier productivity in a standards-based, JavaBeans-capable Java development system will find Borland's JBuilder 2 an express path to the latest innovations in distributed-logic technology." Peter Coffee, PC Week labs "Developers who want 100% Pure Java combined with a highly productive set of tools and flexible options, such as Java Development Kit (JDK) switching, will find Borland's Java integrated development environment right on the mark. " Maggie Biggs, InfoWorld "That is the case at The Home Depot, Inc. Though the Atlanta-based retailer is happy with JPadPro, it is evaluating JBuilder for future projects [Borland was] the last to market. They have, by far, built the best tool I've seen," says Curtis Chambers, manager of distributed application architecture at Home Depot. He says he likes the way JBuilder handles layout managers, generates code and works with JavaBeans and interclasses.'" ComputerWorld, Java Case Studies, March 1998 "When choosing a tool, each company based its evaluation on unique criteria, but many of the users polled stayed with vendors they had used before. NationsBank Corp. had done a lot of development with Borland's Delphi package and found JBuilder's development environment to be similar. We could spend our time training in the new language rather than a new development environment," says John Melka, a bank vice president and senior systems engineer. The tool also offered the best Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) integration, good component architecture and unit testing, he adds.'" ComputerWorld, Java Case Studies, March 1998