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发信人: Bob (Dinosaur), 信区: CompExpress
标题: There's nothing the Company Formerly Known as Bor
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sat May 2 06:27:51 1998)

Stephen Goodman
EMAIL: SGOODMAN@EARTHLIGHT.NET
Friday May 01, 1998
Occupation: CONSULTANT-ARTIST
Location: ALHAMBRA, CA

Your Borland story, there were several misstatements:

Borland is better known as the maker Turbo Pascal and C, and Paradox.
But NOT dBASE, which started breathing at the late Ashton-Tate,
another mismanaged company.

The statement about 1996 being Borland's Waterloo, as if 'Microsoft
did it', is just wrong. Borland began its quagmire period almost
immediately after the Ashton-Tate purchase, which was clearly an
over-extension of their resources.

Now that the PC database world has been in relative arrest
standards-wise, nothing The Company Formerly Known As Borland can do
will reverse the damage caused by years of neglect. Perhaps if more
specific things were said instead of standard buzzword-laden
vagueries, the rest of us would take 'em more seriously, eh?

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