Re: Borland set to sell IDE business

SupportX wrote:

"The interested investors are all capital, equity investors (no
software or hardware companies to be found)."
That's actually bad news, IMHO. The fact that no Software company is interested just goes to show how much faith they all have in Borland's IDE. And, an investment group, would EASILY ditch it at any time and without warning, for reasons having nothing to do with the IDE or its market itself (such as freeing up $$ for a "better" investment)...

Can anybody PLEASE rebuttal my troubling thoughts

There were early signs that Borland/DevCo did not want the spinoff purchased by a software company with a competing toolset. Would you really want Sun, for example, to purchase DevCo? Do you really want the company that can't even get die-hard Java folks to use NetBeans to take over Delphi development? How many more releases of native Win32, let alone .NET, support do you think you'll get?

My take is this quote omits the part where it said something like "of the investors who called, the ones we told to hit the road, the ones who didn't really have any money (and after Corel, you can bet we're calling bank references), and the ones who took a passing glance and decided we're not the best fit after all, the remaining interested investers are all..."

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