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发信人: Bob (Dinosaur), 信区: CompExpress
标  题: you column about borland from a borlander(inprise
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sat May  2 06:27:44 1998)

       Written by David Intersimone on Fri May 1 21:28:58 1998
                        To: Borland's New Name
                        Message Number: 38739 _

To Jesse Berst:

a few responses to your column about the new company Inprise
Corporation - from an Inpriser (Borlander):

＞1. Concerns about stability. When it comes to enterprise software,
＞corporate buyers demand a strong, solid partner. If you think rats
＞desert a sinking ship, you should see corporate buyers scramble >to
ditch a shaky tools vendor.

5 quarters of revenue growth, 4 quarters of profits. new products, new
customers, new updates to existing products. yes, we need another year
of profits and revenue growth to be completely turnedaround. I don't
see corporate buyers running away. I see large corporations agreeing
with our focus and buying in to our strategy of a complete and open
solution for distributed object computing with a choice of development
environments, languages, middleware and services.

＞2. Concerns about technical leadership. There has been lots of
＞speculation about the poor job done by ousted CEO Gary Wetzel, >and
current CEO Del Yocum. Whether any of it is accurate, it is >true they
were not viewed as technical visionaries. Losing their >chief
technology officer to Microsoft didn抰 help. Click for full story .

such old news. the past leadership you mentioned was not technical,
young and inexperienced in the tools market. Losing which chief
technology office to Microsoft? the only chief technology officers we
have had in all the years are Rick LeFaivre and Roger Sippl - both
still here. We've have senior VPs, chief architects of different
products. Are you referring to Paul Gross? He was only SR VP of R&D
and part of the office of the president when Gary Wetzel was fired. I
know all these people personally being here for 13 years now. I hope
you will tell the whole story instead of rehashing old news that has
no bearing on the company we have now. You're talking 2 year old news
and older.

＞3. Concerns about reputation. When Borland sued Microsoft for
＞"stealing" its best employees, it not only lost the suit, but it got
＞millions of dollars of bad publicity about how its best people were
＞now gone. Click for full story. See #1.

We lost the suit? actually no one lost the suit - and some would say
that Borland actually has a better partner relationship with microsoft
because of the action. At microsoft's Professional Developer
Conference last september in san diego, borland presented a major
keynote for 45 minutes in front of 6200 of microsoft's best developer
partners showing more support for microsoft platforms and api's that
even microsoft's tools demos. our best people are gone? that cheapens
the work of the world class people who are here still delivering award
winning (even from ZD publications) products. When you cut one rose
from the bush, more grow even more beautiful. We have loads of top
talent. this is not to say anything bad about the ex-borlanders
(inprisers) - they are all great developers and friends who left for a
variety of reasons.

＞4. Concerns about focus. First Borland destroyed dBASE with >dumb
moves. Then tossed Quattro overboard. Then tried to >promote its
mid-range database (InterBase). Then decided it was >a hard-core tools
company. Then a Java company. Now it is an >enterprise company. Huh?

again as a 13 year employee involved at the top levels here - I must
saw that in the past 18 months or more - we have a very refined focus
on development environments and middleware. what could be more
focused? I would agree that over the years we have tried to focus on
too many things, but in the last 2 years we have focused completely on
development - and yes we have included more developer markets and
segments to focus on, but they are all very orthogona

David Intersimone "David I"
Director, Developer Relations
Inprise Corporation
Borland and Visigenic Products

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