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Ha !!!<br>
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I had heard on Microfocus. I used their COBOL at Polytec years ago.
Just went to the web site, they are selling COBOL.Net What a Joke !<br>
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Bought a smile to my day !<br>
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Rob<br>
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Alister Christie wrote:
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<pre wrap="">What Borland did to Delphi is really rather sad. And now Borland is
owned by some company that I'd never heard of until the purchase
(actually I heard about it on the StackOverflow podcast - even then I
thought it was Joel talking crap like he often does)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.microfocus.com/Solutions/TestingASQ/WelcomeBorlandCustomers/PressRelease.asp">http://www.microfocus.com/Solutions/TestingASQ/WelcomeBorlandCustomers/PressRelease.asp</a>
I don't know why Borland didn't keep doing what it did successfully for
so many years.
Embaradero seem to be doing a pretty good job with Delphi - and
admittedly I hadn't heard of them either until they acquired CodeGear.
However I can't see them gaining significant market share from Micro$oft
in the developer tools market, it would be nice if they did though.
Alister Christie
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Steve Peacocke wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Agreed. Borland went away from its core competency to enter into a
market it was ill prepared for. It tried to recoup some of the costs
and losses by upping the cost of the core developer's tool (Delphi)
until it cost the value greater than the cost of a good second hand car.
It's total focus away from the developer and it's huge cost of delphi
meant that most NZ companies went away from Delphi to another tool
that offered more, easier and cheaper upgrades. Boreland effectively
killed the cash-cow through over-excessive milking.
Thankfully they are looking good to recover slightly, although
regaining the customer base they had previously is probably now out of
their range.
Steve Peacocke
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Kyley Harris
<<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Kyley@harrissoftware.com">Kyley@harrissoftware.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Kyley@harrissoftware.com"><mailto:Kyley@harrissoftware.com></a>> wrote:
"Really one reason Borland went broke is that they made an IDE
that could be
used forever.."
No.. they went broke spending tons of money buying 3rd party tools
and trying to sell them for a fortune to recoup the buy cost.. at
the same time they damn near abandoned the concept of putting out
and supporting the Core Development tools and focused on buggy
integration tools with all the extras they purchased..
They were doing great as a company for Programmers.. Tried to
become a company for lifecycle development and stuffed up.
Still.. with Delphi 2007 I've been quite happy.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:44 PM, John Bird
<<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:johnkbird@paradise.net.nz">johnkbird@paradise.net.nz</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:johnkbird@paradise.net.nz"><mailto:johnkbird@paradise.net.nz></a>> wrote:
I think in general the upgrade policy has been quite generous,
as others say
other companies are much worse.
Take Microsoft - As a Vista user of 1 year I get no reduced
price upgrade
to Windows 7. Vista is V6.0, Windows 7 internally is ictually
Windows 6.1
and could be argued is not even a new version at all - they
are as similar
as Windows 2000 (V5.0) and Windows XP (V5.1) were.
D2007 versus 7 - have to say the D2007 use of IDE screen is a
lot better for
a single screen on a laptop. And like others I have the D7
help loaded -
actually the D2007 help is not so bad, just slow at times.
Really one reason Borland went broke is that they made an IDE
that could be
used forever..
John
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