Re: Embrace and Extend, Borland Style

From: Nick Hodges (TeamB) (nickhodges_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/26/03 

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:51:31 -0600

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 17:45:33 +0100, "Luigi D. Sandon" <cp@sandon.it>
wrote:

>Receiving support for .NET take off. They bet a lot on it. Once is the
>"dominant"platform under windows, let's see if they still need support from
>other companies...

There is a risk there, yes. But pissing of customers isn't a way to
make money.

>You are right: "to appear". But they *want* to dominate and drive it.

They do, and they will continue to do so even if Borland implements my
idea.

>See my reply to another post - if Borland supports well too many competitors
>products (especially from Oracle and IBM...) it could result in a loss of
>profits for MS. And I am sure they know it.

Depends. I'm pretty sure that more people using Windows/.Net-based
client applications to access an Oracle database isn't something that
MS gets too upset about. Now using a +Java+ client to access Oracle
is definitely getting them worried.

Nick Hodges - TeamB
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