Re: Borland: Third party tools for Microsoft

From: johnnie (none_at_noware.non)
Date: 10/03/03 

Date: 3 Oct 2003 01:05:12 -0700

> MS has many partners including Borland, that have never become MS
> divisions, and never have any intention of doing so.

Really????

what I see is Borland deminising them selfs from a tools company
in to a library and IDE company. It is a slow process of over 5 years
but it is there.

It started with the statement that "No we do not support drivers
building in delphi" which buy it self is harmless enough and what now we
have is "we put any compiler developemnt in backburn and we do actively
support the DOT NOT development from now until fearther notice" which
in my eyes is we freeze the compiler market and we move to IDE and
Library building for Microsoft.

Do not get me wrong it is not that bad for Borland they do get to talk
to the biggest market share and probably will be easier for them to
address this market (they do have the experience and skills required).
It is a verry professional attidute which manages to keep every option
open for the company but it is not something I coold care less.

What I wanted from Borland was there compiler & IDE now I loose the
compiler part (or it feels this way) and at the same time I see the IDE
on a platform that I'm not interested in and actually try to avoid like
hell (I do not appreciate the pain of compatability breaks in every
major version that microsoft is well knowen for).

Ofcourse Borland is not to be blamed on this all of us are.

regards
johnnie.

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