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2005-09-22 01:41:23 AM
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Kostya writes:
Cheers,
Kevin.
 

In article <433197f8$XXXX@XXXXX.COM>, XXXX@XXXXX.COM
says...
tactic, raising rhetoric to a fever pitch, and negotiating through the
media. He's a carpet bagger, when will people realize that.
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Kostya writes:
things to go his way. Sounds like only the Deploy unit (essentially
Visibroker) is affected (and even that is conjecture unless and until
information is relased by Borland) but he conveniently, and probably without
any merit considering the very clear Borland statement, slides "Dephi" in
there.
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"Serge Dosyukov (Dragon Soft)" wrote
share it would be a wash.
The price of the stock has been trending down for some time with some strange
volume spikes in the past week, it will be interesting to watch what happens
now. I hope the BoD have some good lawyers lined up to defend the stockholder
law suits which are sure to follow and they probably need to get their golden
parachutes checked 'cause this barbarian Coates is going to storm the gates and
try to replace em. And this is a BoD who hasn't seen fit to appointed a
replacement CEO leaving the company more or less leaderless with only an interim
CEO in a time of great vulnerability.
 

I think Scott Arnold referring to Delphi as a "nice little cash cow"
was a pretty unfortunate choice of words and didn't do much to reassure
customers. Statements that came afterward from DevRel and this letter
helped clarify things and are a lot more encouraging.
And, as other people already pointed out, the quote you posted is from
Coats. If you take that at face value, I have a bridge to sell you.
I've always had faith in Borland's technical direction. Now I'm
becoming more optimistic about their overall message.
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Bruce McGee writes:
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exactly how long it took to reject the offer.
A sale for $150 million in cash sounds like a premium for the legacy
products and Borland's BOD was (apparently) unwise to consider it from a
fiduciary standpoint.
But, I don't think Coates is going to go away because of this particular
rejection. He did manage to get himself on the BOD many years ago, and
goodness knows he's rich as Croesus.
 

Kevin Berry writes:
(in Delphi or VS.NET)? SOAP doesn't count; too slow.
(Yes, Janeva is VisiBroker.)
I sometimes think that people tend to write off stuff which isn't
useful to them personally as useless in general. But there's a heck of
a lot of CORBA in the world.
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but here in these NG's. FUD is real and should be addressed to diffuse it.
If Borland chooses not to do so, then the question of the validity of
Coates' claims will remain.
 

Kostya wrote in <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>:
Will
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"Bruce McGee" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
hope it causes their stock prices to rise, because Coates has put together
significantly more than 50% of the value of Borland (150m of 242m total).
Since he didn't get it one way, maybe he is about to try another.
Brent S.
 

Brian Moelk writes:
www.borland.com/us/products/middleware/index.html
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"Brian Moelk" wrote
"The company has recently transferred many of its dedicated and hard working
Delphi and Deploy developers"
How would Coates know this? How many is "many"? And if they came from a
soon-to-be EOL product, then what's bad about keeping your known good
employees around by transferring them to newer products? Coates is spinning
an absolutely standard business practice here (align the workforce) as if it
were something horrible. Without details, there's nothing to deny here,
because without details, it is little more than a charge that the company is
alive.
"a chilling effect on morale at the Delphi and Deploy groups"
This doesn't even make sense. Why would reaasignment of middleware
developers hurt morale in the Delphi group? If anything, seeing my company
work hard to reassign folks in closing divisions to expanding divisions
would make me feel good. Again, this is all spin--there's no real fact here
to dispute. What should Borland do--issue a "Morale is high" press release?
That would just look silly.
"top people have already resigned,"
Personnel turnover is a constant reality in any business. Without names and
specific statements of reason, there's nothing here to deny--it's all spin.
"others have offers for employment elsewhere"
I don't really think it would be hard for any member of the Delphi team to
find a new job, no. So what?
bobD
 

Hi Bob,
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