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Date:      Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:47:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Nathan Williams <nathanw@nils.lib.il.us>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Pulse poll at Borland
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009261544400.1173-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000926124623.04cf18b0@localhost>

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Thankfully we have great development software such as CodeForge
(http://www.codeforge.com) - It's not open source, however they do
actively support a native FreeBSD version. I have been quite thrilled with
it since the day I first tried out the evaluation version. At 50$ for a
Single-User Commercial license, it's very reasonably priced. I don't think
I'd leave it for Borland even if it existed for FreeBSD native. :)

Matt

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Brett Glass wrote:

: 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

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