Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:
...

> At the risk of making Geoff angry, I celebrate the final and
> much anticipated demise of Borland. The company was a zombie
> already. ...

You do not make me angry Claudio, I think perhaps there is
reason to celebrate the final demise - if only so that we can
be confident that management incompetence will no longer stir
our emotions. With the name Borland finally gone there is no
need to feel a rage of impotence at how a once good name is
being let down yet again.

I cannot join you in criticising the company for being a
commericial entity - that is what it was, that was it's reason
for existing. Obviously Borland made commercial mistakes, but
I cannot claim the expertise to pin-point their precise nature
(but like you I do have my opinions on the subject :-).


...

> 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 is new? You think Embarcadero is a charity? Delphi has
moved from one money-making machine to another. It is just
another commercial entity, susceptible to all the same things
things that happened to Borland.

Many of us will have fewer expectations and hopes because we
lack the history with this company, if they screw up we will
probably be disappointed rather than angry. It is not the
nature of a commercial entity that has changed, it is our
expectations.

All seems to be going well for now, but there is nothing new
here except (many of) the faces.

--
Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing