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- From: steveh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Steven Hayes)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
- Message-ID: <13734@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 12:29:35 GMT
- References: <21JUL199215024239@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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- 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.
-
- The compiler is in beta test now. Object Vision is shipping I think.
-
- >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.
-
- Borland is certainly not ignoring OS/2. Philippe Kahn will be speaking to
- Australian developers at the OS/2 Developers Conference here in Australia
- in late August.
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