"John Kaster (Borland)" wrote...

> "Rea Berryman" wrote:
> > I am hoping that Borland will continue their support of Interbase and

the

> > IB community.
>
> We have never stopped supporting Interbase. The work we are doing now that
> plans to license IB to another company are cancelled may have a SLIGHT
> impact on public statements about our plans for Interbase. We have already
> publicly said that we are supporting Interbase and will continue to

support

> Interbase. I guess some people won't believe it unless they hear it every
> day. Should I make:
>
> Inprise/Borland supports Interbase
>
> my tag line on my messages just to make sure people don't think we somehow
> forgot about Interbase?
>
> > I really do not want to see the effort all "forked up" if you know
> > what I mean!!! :-)
>
> Which is probably why we haven't said anything further about it in public
> right now.
>
> We are supporting Interbase.
> We will continue to support Interbase until and unless we find another
> solution that will ensure the support of Interbase for the future. There

may

> never be an external solution.
>
> The thing that amazes me is how many people here think Inprise didn't want
> the deal with "newco" to go through. Why on Earth would we have spent the
> time and effort on putting a deal together if we weren't intending to go
> through with it? Obviously, both companies could not agree to terms. That

is

> why the deal did not go through.

Cheers

Phil