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- From: Andreas De Troy <Andreas.DeTroy@ped.kuleuven.ac.be>
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- Subject: Borland should be ashamed. My experience with BC5.0.
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 08:22:11 GMT
- Organization: KUL
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- bsilvern@li.net (Bob Silvern) wrote:
- >With the release of BC5.0, Borland has made it clear that they value
- >time-to-market far more than customer satisfaction. Within 5 minutes of use I
- >found a considerable number of serious bugs, even with Patch 1 installed.
- >There is no way that Borland could have been ignorant of these problems. I
- >have no doubt that they made the conscious decision to ship this product
- >prematurely in order not to lose market share to Microsoft and Symantec.
- >
- >This is not the first time they have shipped a useless product. Long time
- >Borland users will remember BC4.0 as another fiasco. Although many of the
- >problems were fixed with later patches, the frustration endured by their
- >customers is not easily forgotten. The short short-sightedness of Borland's
- >management will ultimately catch up with them. I now regret giving them a
- >second chance by purchasing BC5.0.
-
- You forget to mention the 3.0-version. I was a loyal Borland-customer
- (very happy with Turbo C++ 2.xx) when I received the new 3.0-version.
- After recompiling my programs, some of them forced me to reset the
- computer, others just gave a wrong outcome, few of them worked properly.
- I remember peek/poke did not work, max (a, b) did not work, it could not
- properly handle programs with arguments to main etc.; I was astonished
- then, I could not believe that Borland had not been aware of it: if they
- had recompiled JUST ONE of their OWN programs, they would have noticed.
- After all, I reported 8 serious bugs the very first day I used the
- compiler.
-
- I must say that the Borland-people took their responsability: they soon
- sent the updated 3.1-version free of charge (which is not so evident in
- Europe). But since then I would not even think of buying a Borland
- 4.0/5.0/...-product.
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