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2005-08-17 04:34:10 AM
delphi228
fan of Delphi. I am more willing to roll the dice with someone that really
believes in Delphi than keeping Delphi within the New Borland. ISTM, if
Delphi stays put, chances are it will die a slow painful death.
 

At 22:34:10, 16.08.2005, Brian Moelk writes:
--
Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] velthuis.homepage.t-online.de
"Barabási's Law of Programming: Program development ends when the program
does what you expect it to do ?whether it is correct or not."
-- Albert-Lászl?Barabási
 

Brian Moelk writes:
done is in an attempt to raise stock prices so he can dump his stock. He
doesn't care what gets destroyed to achieve this.
--
Jeff Overcash (TeamB) On waves of silver I dreamed of gold
(Please do not email 'Till I lost the peace that dreaming gives
me directly unless I dreamed of the moment of my own death
asked. Thank You) That no one ever dreams and lives (Marillion)
 

Jan Derk writes:
none of that article was a direct quote of what he actually said. We
don't know exactly how he worded it. An author can add a completely
different spin to something based on their own biases.
Cheers,
Kevin.
 

Brian Moelk writes:
Cheers,
Kevin.
 

Joe Hendricks writes:
part. All the rest is neither a quote nor attributed to anything he said. It
very easily can be a paraphrasing by the author. Matter of fact the whole
article is curiously void of any quotes, only a few paraphrasing with a lot of
author interpretation.
--
Jeff Overcash (TeamB) On waves of silver I dreamed of gold
(Please do not email 'Till I lost the peace that dreaming gives
me directly unless I dreamed of the moment of my own death
asked. Thank You) That no one ever dreams and lives (Marillion)
 

At 22:50:09, 16.08.2005, Kevin Berry writes:
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Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] velthuis.homepage.t-online.de
"The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing
systems is a symptom of professional immaturity." -- Edsger Dijkstra
 

"I know Bob Coates, and my impression is just the opposite... i.e., he's a
big Delphi fan and has been frustrated for some time over Borland's handling
of the product line. "
 

Delphi community about exactly what he said and what he meant.
consistent with the conference call and the eWeek article.
 

"Dennis Landi" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes:
 

Kevin Berry writes:
it could well be that Arnolds actually loves Delphi and plans on putting
Delphi profits (and all the money that was roamed from it in the past)
right back into Delphi R&D so Danny Thorpe can actually start new
compiler developments without having to fly under the radar to give us
truely great new features like a Unicode Win32/64 VCL that targets both
Windows and OS-X...
It's only that the Yahoo author got it all backward...
Man, for a moment I thought I was having a really bad dream.
Jan Derk
 

At 22:34:10, 16.08.2005, Brian Moelk writes:
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Several weeks ago, shareholder Bob Coates raised a stir with a call for
Borland to divest the two non-ALM divisions, which he termed a
distraction.
AFAIK, Coates has shares in Borland, but not necessarily in a future
Delhi company. He obviously tells people he cares about ALM, and not
about Delphi at all.
My view on this is that Coates is trying to raise the value of Borland
stock, so he can dump it at a higher price.
--
Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] velthuis.homepage.t-online.de
"When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras."
-- Old saying
 

"Brian Moelk" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes:
Several weeks ago, shareholder Bob Coates raised a stir with a call
for Borland to divest the two non-ALM divisions, which he termed a
distraction.
</quote>
Doesn't sound like a fan to me.
 

Jan Derk writes:
the impression about Delphi that you and others seem to imply are true based on
this article.
--
Jeff Overcash (TeamB) On waves of silver I dreamed of gold
(Please do not email 'Till I lost the peace that dreaming gives
me directly unless I dreamed of the moment of my own death
asked. Thank You) That no one ever dreams and lives (Marillion)
 

"Jeff Overcash (TeamB)" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
is the last time a company said to it is employees "Hey, we're gonna shut you
down in 6 months. Keep up the good work until then."?