Re: Borland set to sell IDE business

Derek Davidson wrote:

Brion L. Webster wrote:

There were early signs that Borland/DevCo did not want the spinoff
purchased by a software company with a competing toolset.

I wonder at thinking behind that. Two purchases come to mind:

1. Clipper was bought by CA who did not have a competing toolset.
History indicates that the purchase was not a good one for Clipper
developers.

2. FoxPro was bought by Microsoft who did have competing toolsets.
They've looked after FoxPro rather well.

Trying to look on the sunny side... ;-)

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-Brion

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