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- From: smbrush@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup)
- Subject: Where's Borland?
- Message-ID: <21JUL199215024239@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
- Date: 21 Jul 1992 15:02 EST
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- A few months ago, Borland seemed to be promising that they were heavily
- committed to supplying applications for OS/2: The trade rags quoted
- Phillipe Khan (sp?) saying how important OS/2 would be, etc.
-
- TODAY, the picture looks different! While Lotus and Microsoft advertise
- OS/2 spreadsheets, Borland is shipping an "upgrade" from Quattro 3.0 to 4.0
- which is _less_compatible_ with OS/2 than the previous version. Borland
- technical support has no solutions, and they won't even refund the
- "upgrade" price because they "don't support OS/2". Nothing about upcoming
- Borland OS/2 releases has been in the rags for weeks.
-
- It seems that either Borland is having difficulty porting their compiler to
- OS/2, or that they have made a strategic decision to avoid OS/2. Either
- way, it's looking like it's time to make the decision to avoid Borland.
-
- Comments, Hard Info, etc. is Welcome
-
- Andrew S. Brush | SMBRUSH@LIMS01.lerc.nasa.gov
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