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<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Jeez,
those Inprise, ah I mean Ashton Tate, oh, Borland guys are just weird (oh, um,
hi Richard :)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Why
would you not do:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> - Requirements Definition and Management (and heres a free
enterprise license for Delphi)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> - Lifecycle Quality Management (and heres a free enterprise license
for JBuilder)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> - Change Management (and heres a free enterprise license for C++
Builder</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Like,
as soon as the Delphi goes on the auction block its a dying
language,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>until
then its a (profit making?) loss leader. (Free licenses would bump
up</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>your
usage numbers too, and people like what other people like).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>(Hard
to see not being able to make a profit out of it - surely a small team of
good(*) </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>developers </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>and a sales and a marketing dude could knock the worst of
it out. Even at </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> the extreme that should be < 1m USD. Don't know how
much you'd pay for </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>a
license in </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>USD, but at $1k US you should be past breaking even at
what, 1500 - 1800</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>licenses </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>per year? Which'd be a single small-medium corp
in US)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>What
are they going to do next - open source their rather profitable database
product?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>OTOH :
getting close to the stage that that'd make sense now - rather
more</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>than
it did 5 years ago anyway. If I was evil corporate overlord, I'd have
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>tripled the price 5 years ago and taken some profit - changing databases
is</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>teh
suck, and there was only about a 5 year window for making money
off</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>selling them. OTOH if I was the corporation I would've got some extra
language </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>features </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>put in </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>before I did that: </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>"How do you do a
microselectors in Oracle again?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Does
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>postgres have triple-mojo </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>transaction
mode?" :)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2><BR></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><BR><SPAN
class=069180402-09022006></SPAN><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2>(*) <SPAN class=069180402-09022006>good meaning: very
f'in.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR><BR><SPAN class=069180402-09022006><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Cheers, Kurt.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<P><FONT size=2>--<BR><BR> </FONT> </P>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>James Sugrue<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, 9 February 2006 7:32
a.m.<BR><B>To:</B> 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi
List'<BR><B>Subject:</B> [DUG] Not sure what this means to
developers<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">… but can’t help think this is a
good thing for <st1:place w:st="on">Delphi</st1:place>. Hopefully the company
who takes over will do some decent marketing and listen to its clients
(us)…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www.borland.com/us/company/news/Tod_Nielsen_customer_shareholder_letter_02-08-06.html">http://www.borland.com/us/company/news/Tod_Nielsen_customer_shareholder_letter_02-08-06.html</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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