Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:34:22 -0500 From: Nathan Williams <nathanw@nils.lib.il.us> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Nathan Williams <nathanw@nils.lib.il.us>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Pulse poll at Borland Message-ID: <3073B3378589D411B21600508BAF32AA012349@EXCHANGE>
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So, did you vote? > -----Original Message----- > From: Brett Glass [SMTP:brett@lariat.org] > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 1:56 PM > To: Nathan Williams; chat@FreeBSD.ORG; advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Pulse poll at Borland > > Borland has a long history of ignoring all but the #1 platform in any > niche -- a strategy which has caused them serious problems more than > once. Their support of Windows to the exclusion of all other OSes in > the 90's made them dependent on Microsoft and practically destroyed > the company. > > When I asked them, at the February LinuxWorld, if they'd be supporting > FreeBSD, the marketing droid at the booth asked me (I kid you not) > "Which distribution of Linux is that? I've never heard of it." > > The sad part is that their booth was about two aisles away from > the Walnut Creek/BSDi booth. I don't even think they "got it" when > the 10-foot-high daemon walked by. > > When I posted messages on their site's message boards asking politely > about support for the BSDs, they simply did not respond. This despite > the fact that Borland language manager Simon Thornhill claims that > "Borland does not have a platform agenda." (Odd, then, that they > support so few platforms!) > > In short, Borland needs a serious wake-up call. > > A *lot* of people will have to respond to that poll before they even > consider any of the BSDs, and if we're not #1 (or, at best, #2) they > simply won't do it. So folks had better vote early and often. > > This is a company that up to this point has had little foresight and > does not have any sense of the value of diversification. I hope they > will change. I'm not holding my breath, though, as they have been so > dense for all of these years. > > --Brett Glass > > At 11:05 AM 9/26/2000, Nathan Williams wrote: > > >I'm not sure if anyone has alerted this group yet, so I'm sorry if this > is a > >repeat. Borland is conducting a developer's poll at > >http://community.borland.com addressing which OS to add support to for > C++ > >Builder and Delphi. Currently FreeBSD is 4th, but could easily pull of > >second place if we could get a few more votes in. Nobody knows how much > >cred Borland puts into these surveys, but this is a great and essential > >opportunity for the FreeBSD community to express their interest in > corporate > >support for FreeBSD applications. So, VOTE goddamnit. > >Nathan Williams > >nathanw@nils.lib.il.us > >P.S. Before voting you will need to fill out a very short registration > >form, no biggy so don't let it discourage you from making your voice > heard. > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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