On 27 Feb 97, Tim Hutzler wrote to Lawrence Gordon:
 TH> LG>I'm not "hopping off the BASIC bandwagon", Tim; I just want to know
 TH> LG>where PowerBASIC, Inc. "is" these days.  They aren't "here".
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 TH> I'm going to tell them to not waste their time. I will not be buying
 TH> any more of their products, if their policy is to abandon support
 TH> anytime they move on to something new.
PowerBASIC (formerly Turbo Basic) has been playing the catch-up game with
Microsoft for 10 years and it has been failing for 10 years.
It is now the superior BASIC compiler for DOS... where there is almost no
market for it anymore.  It could have had the OS/2 BASIC market to itself...
but PB just didn't make an effort to develop itself for that totally
wide-open market.  It is now marketing itself as a VB "add-on" company...
which means that it offers nothing that Microsoft can't already do with
other 3rd party tools.
My disappointment lies in the fact that PB "coulda' been a contender", but,
instead, it self-destructed because it failed to grasp the opportunities
in the compiler market and forge its own niche in a timely manner.
However, as the moderator, I'm going to have to slap my hand and call this
discussion off-topic.
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