Comment php (Score 1) 155
I'll take it a step further. Borland/Inprise/whatever is such a bad company that I'd never knowingly start a serious
project that depends upon them or their products in any way.
Never *ever* again.
When Borland (then Inprise, then Borland again, then Codegear(?) ) stopped making sober RADs and decided to take a chance
on expensive toys for code management, they lost in both fronts. The Turbo Series (Pascal, C and Assembler) and Delphi
(the odd versions, 1, 3, 5 and 7) seriously competed against Microsoft products (Microsoft C, Assembler, Visual
Series), even outselling them in a lot of places in the world (Brazil, for instance).
Two things made Borland wreck their scene: 1) losing their creative minds to Microsoft, specially Anders Hejlsberg
[wikipedia.org], creator of nothing less than Turbo Pascal, Delphi and main architect of C#. 2) losing their focus (from
useful RADs to expensive but totally good for nothing "Application Lifecycle Management" (whatever it is).
Had kept the focus and the creative minds, either .Net would not exist (and consequently, stole Borland's thunder) or the
Borland tools would be better even than the Microsoft ones on that fronts (Delphi 8 almost got there, initially).
Borland died a sad death, and what we see now is nothing but Post Morten flatulence.
ozgur uksal
http://www.adobe.com/
project that depends upon them or their products in any way.
Never *ever* again.
When Borland (then Inprise, then Borland again, then Codegear(?) ) stopped making sober RADs and decided to take a chance
on expensive toys for code management, they lost in both fronts. The Turbo Series (Pascal, C and Assembler) and Delphi
(the odd versions, 1, 3, 5 and 7) seriously competed against Microsoft products (Microsoft C, Assembler, Visual
Series), even outselling them in a lot of places in the world (Brazil, for instance).
Two things made Borland wreck their scene: 1) losing their creative minds to Microsoft, specially Anders Hejlsberg
[wikipedia.org], creator of nothing less than Turbo Pascal, Delphi and main architect of C#. 2) losing their focus (from
useful RADs to expensive but totally good for nothing "Application Lifecycle Management" (whatever it is).
Had kept the focus and the creative minds, either
Borland tools would be better even than the Microsoft ones on that fronts (Delphi 8 almost got there, initially).
Borland died a sad death, and what we see now is nothing but Post Morten flatulence.
ozgur uksal
http://www.adobe.com/
