Borland hasn't been out on their own as an independent developing company
except for some of their products. They have sup****ted MS in every way
possible thinking that what MS does is the money rule for the future.
They
have put the whole Delphi bandwagon on the .NET crapola; therefore all of
the developers that didn't want to go out into left field with .NET stayed
with older versions of Delphi and swung over to the PHP world and other
venues.
<irongolem@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Much as I have always been a Borland advocate, I don't think they
> really care about MS' reaction. If you look over their history, they
> have always shown a 'money first, user second' view - something that
> Microsoft has gone to extreme lengths to prove otherwise (yes we all
> know Ms is evil, blah blah - read on).
>
> Case in point - Sup****t for software. Go ahead and look up any problem
> with any MS software - new or old - online. From MSDNOnline (FREE I
> might add) to the Microsoft-engineer sup****ted Knowledge Base, no
> special access is required to get to the nib of the problem.
> Borland expect users to pay them just to be informed of the problem -
> then you have to have special Maintennance Contracts, etc just to get a
> re****t on the problem, or find out why X happens.
> It is so bad that the community has banded together, and provide
> sup****t through the BDN - and it is nothing that Borland supplies this,
> in fact it's a big cost saver I'm sure.
>
> In the end, I use Delphi in spite of Borland's treatment of the
> Developer community - I think if anyone, I would want whoever buys it
> to learn from Borlands mistakes. Coz they could have been a contender
> in this market..
> NewNameHere wrote:
> > 1. Borland should drop development and sup****t for it.
> >
> > 2. Drop the price to $250.00.
> >
> > 3. Announce that it will be sold for 2 years more,
> > then released to open source.
> >
> > Who wouldn't buy it then? Give me one good reason.
> > What do you think Microsoft's reaction will be?
> >
> > Comments?
>
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