Roy Schestowitz wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Two Views of Enterprise Open Source
,----[ Quote ]
| Whatever his success with words, he was less fortunate in business. Microsoft
| essentially won the battle for the hearts and minds of the developer
| community, and Borland became something of a lost soul, wandering the fringes
| of computing, trying to find something to do in the shadow of Big Bill and an
| even bigger Microsoft.
|
| One of the people at Microsoft tasked with destroying Borland was Todd
| Nielsen, who was general manager for Microsoft's developer relations and
| platform marketing.
`----
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1293
Borland destroyed themselves. They were too quick to ditch support for
their platforms for the next big thing, going from one bright idea to
another with wild abandon, leaving a massive trail of disenfranchised
developers stuck on an obsolete platform in their wake. Shame really,
because in the days around the launch of win 3.1 Borland were a great
company with great minds producing great stuff.
|
|
