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- From: mmtl@hobson.cc.flinders.edu.au (T.Lampre)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.065406.37717@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 06:54:06 GMT
- References: <21JUL199215024239@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
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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.
- >
-
- ObjectVision just announced. As it fits on one disk with room for
- examples it was probably easy to port. The announcements said that it
- would use OS/2's features but didn't elaborate. I hope to see a copy
- in mid-August (ha!)
-
- >TODAY, the picture looks different! While Lotus and Microsoft advertise
-
- Is Microsoft advertising Excel 4.0 or just 3.0? Version 3.0 for OS/2
- has been out for a long time.
-
- >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
-
- Yes, I thinh they've hit a bit of a problem moving from just DOS to
- other environments. Even their Windows products are slipping.
-
- >OS/2, or that they have made a strategic decision to avoid OS/2. Either
-
- There is an OS/2 developers seminar to be held here in Australia next
- month, but I can't go :(. Philippe Kahn is giving the keynote address
- so I think they are still interested.
-
- >way, it's looking like it's time to make the decision to avoid Borland.
- >
-
- Maybe a bit early. Haven't seen much actually delivered by anyone else
- yet either.
-
- Trevor Lampre
- MIS Unit
- Flinders University of South Australia
-