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echo: aust_c_here
to: david nugent
from: Clem Clarke
date: 1994-02-23 00:17:10
subject: Re: Borland C++ 4.0

-=> Quoting david nugent to Simon Forsyth <=-



 dn> 'Excellence' seems to be taking a back seat to 'marketing' these days,

 dn> across the board.	Borland are ignoring their users since they think

 dn> they know better.	It isn't too late, of course, but it will be

 dn> interesting to see how they respond.  The message that the DOS IDE is

 dn> sorely missed can't have gone completely unnoticed.  I guess we'll see

 dn> just how far Borland are prepared to go to resist user demand in the

 dn> face of their decisions.  If they don't relent, then I guess it's just

 dn> confirmation that they've become another MicroSoft, detached from

 dn> their user base and on some sort of religious jihad, with the attitude

 dn> that they "know better" and can somehow unilaterally
determine what

 dn> the market wants.

 dn> Not that I'm complaining really - when a company starts to sour like

 dn> that, it opens up a gap for some healthy competition. That's how

 dn> Borland got where it did in the first place.



Great!



When do you start?



Clem

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