Re: where will the action be ?

Lauchlan M wrote:

> The point here is that Borland are followers, not leaders and, as you
> have pointed out, as MS own the OS, the platform and pretty much
> everything and call all the shots, this is a hard road for Borland.
> Borland have to continue to out-innovate MS by large margins
> (currently with ALM, ECO) to stay in the game.

Asking Borland not to "follow" MS is like asking a fish to live out of
water. MS is the ecosystem that Windows developers live it. It's an
irrefutable reality that MS leads the way. There's no way around that.
I personally fail to see the difference, for instance, between
"following MS into .NET" and "following MS into Win64", except that you
can make money with the former.

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