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- From: tucker@shiva.edsg.hac.com (George Tucker)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Borland International?
- Message-ID: <24073@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:25:11 GMT
- References: <4250046@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <Bxw0yq.81t@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- Reply-To: tucker@shiva.UUCP (George Tucker)
- Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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- In article <Bxw0yq.81t@acsu.buffalo.edu> fleck@acsu.buffalo.edu (richard j fleck) writes:
- >
- >Does anybody on the inside of Borland have
- >an opinion on the companies future?
-
- Glad I sold at 79.
-
- All I know is that I try to convince this company to buy Borland
- C++ because it is far superior to the MSFT version, but they just
- blindly buy MSFT crap anyway, bugs and all. I think Gates must
- have a personal grudge with Kahn. Anyway, MSFT has marketing
- muscle like IBM in the bad old days. In 20 years MSFT will probably
- be like IBM today, but it will be too late for a lot of
- good competitors.
-
- BORL makes the best windows products, but they are always behind
- schedule. MSFT churns out whatever they have handy and everybody
- buys it anyway. The software industry has matured, so sales
- organization and muscle beats quality. BORL might be underpriced
- now, but the prospects are murky. Has anyone heard about their
- ventures with Apple and IBM for next generation software?
-
- Note: If you have access to MSFT and BORL C++, compile this on each:
- #include <windows.h>
- class far C
- {private:
- RECT rc;
- public:
- C();
- };
-
- C::C()
- {RECT r2;
- }
- NSFT gave me a big song and dance about why I cant do this in the
- small memory model. BORL said "Well, it's their 1st attempt and
- our fourth."
-
- George Tucker tucker@shiva.hac.com
- Signature line awaiting FDA approval.
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