From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Sep 26 12:47:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca (epsilon.lucida.qc.ca [216.95.146.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8697137B42C for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:47:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1469 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Sep 2000 19:47:03 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Sep 2000 19:47:03 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:47:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: Brett Glass Cc: Nathan Williams , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pulse poll at Borland In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000926124623.04cf18b0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.qc.ca http://www.lucida.qc.ca/ * * GPG fingerprint - A9BC F3A8 278E 22F2 9BDA BFCF 74C3 2D31 C035 5390 * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp iD8DBQE50P03dMMtMcA1U5ARAtq7AKDDRE7/VGRGb55BqIWKdBJyL173owCgsxPN FcI1gwDo9Iirh+GkOgbUZJE= =MbRK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message