--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "Claudio Valderrama C." <cvalde@...> wrote:

>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com
> > [mailto:Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Worboys
> > Sent: Domingo, 10 de Mayo de 2009 20:50
> >
> ...
> >
> > (Assuming this buy-out goes through) I think it is the time
> > to mourn the final passing, after a long lingering illness,
>...
> will pull the railway cars. What's lost is only the money-making machine of
> the shareholders, but they won't lose their money, because they will get
> shares in Microfocus. We have nothing to mourn. Out with the old, in with
> the new (in Spanish: a rey muerto, rey puesto).
>
> What could I regret? Only that some mediocre middle level managers were able
> to slip through the filter and made their way into CodeGear and thus into
> Embarcadero.
>
> C.
>

Very well said, after fiasco's like Turbo Vision for C++,
the paradox engine, DOS powerpack and the successor of Dbase
that I *don't* want to remember the name. All the respect
that Borland gained with the original Turbos and Delphi 1
is long lost. ( Rei morto, rei posto. in Portuguese 8) ).
The good mistake was the release of Interbase with a
open license. Now with QT LGPL and a strong/reliable Firebird
I can see a day without Borland/Codegear/Embarcadero
licenses in my team.

After attending some technical presentations with the developers
liaison of Borland, that delivered blatant misrepresentations
as time proved, I found strange the Embarcadero maintained
the same staff.

Regards

Luis Forra
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