On (10 Mar 95) Brenton Vettoretti wrote to Keith Richardson...



 BV> Hi keith,



hi brenton



 BV> Welcome home. Can you now tell us where you have been ?



i've been freezing my arse off in a little place about 30 miles out of

boston mass (and i do mean litteraly freezing, the temp went positive 4

times in 28 days!).



 KR> all the yank mags are raving about delphi, but it does depend on

 KR> whether borland can survive to market it, they appear to be deeply

 KR> in the financial shit.



 BV> True, although as they have offloaded their spread sheet they are on

 BV> the right track. I think they should also get rid of Paradox and

 BV> dBase to concentrate on their pure language compilers. Although

 BV> that's only my opinion and I don't use Borland products. (yet)



you are probably right, i think that they have been unloading though to

just keep afloat. i hear that phillipe khan has now left the company,

and they owe $100m to lotus as the result of a court case over them

ripping 1-2-3 off for ami. i have been using tc and bc++ for about 18

months, and find them excellent, of course, the choice of compiler is

just about as objective as the choice of editor in most cases, but i am

happy with the product, i find owl better than the competition.



i got an invite to the delphi launch last week, but wasn't able to go,

if i had thought about it sooner i'd have offered it to anybody who

wanted to go. all the reviews that i have seen (february byte has an

intro to it) have been very positive, but leave the doubt as to whether

borland can compete with m$ vb marketing machine. 



anyway, it will be a while before i get back to programming - i got a

new toy, a flat bed scanner, and photoshop 3, so i'm busy feeding all my

old photos through it, guess i'd better try and "lose" one of the scsi 9

gig drives at work (-:



                        Keith



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