Re: Yet Another Arnold Article

"IanH" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:4315af6a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

>
> Follow your own logic, Larry: Borland are convinced that the growth
> area for the future is SDO. They see Delphi as a mature tool
> (regardless of whether Scott actually used the dread phrase 'cash
> cow'). They have a fiduciary responsibility to act on these beliefs.
>
> Please note that I am not saying that the SDO focus is wrong. If
> chasing a small number of multi-million dollar SDO sales makes more
> money for Borland then they HAVE to do it. It just means that where my
> interests and Borland's have been aligned for so many years, they may
> now be starting to diverge - and MY responsibility is to MY business.
>
>

I don't disagree with you at all. My post was prompted by what seemed to
be the attitude that Borland should have some other reason than shareholder
value for its decisions and actions. You and I use Borland products only
as long as it is profitable to us. Borland will produce Delphi only as
long as it is the most profitable strategy for them. Everything else is
hot air.

I know this is probably boringly obvious to you, but then you would seem to
be in a minority of posters in this newsgroup.
.

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