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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!diku!joker
- From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
- Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.005601.16136@odin.diku.dk>
- Sender: joker@freja.diku.dk
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:56:01 GMT
- References: <21JUL199215024239@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 34
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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.
-
- >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
-
- If Borland have deserted OS/2 I think I'll say "Bye bye Borland" and sell
- my Borland C++ ...
-
- They cannot be serious about this, can they???
-
- Christian
- --
- M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
- student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
- "Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
-