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- From: logic@gacvx2.gac.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.155506.1610@gacvx2.gac.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 15:55:05 -0600
- References: <21JUL199215024239@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
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- In article <21JUL199215024239@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>, smbrush@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup) writes:
- > 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
- > Sverdrup Technology | 2001 Aerospace Parkway
- > NASA LeRC Group | Brook Park, OH 44142
- > "Opinions are Mine, Only" | (216) 826-6770
-
- Borland C++ for OS/2 is in betatest as we speak..
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- If we avoid Borland and avoid Microsoft, there's not much left is there?
- Hardly seems like a wise move..
-
- al hart
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