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Borland was really a pioneer, made great stuff.. Sad they couldn't survive the Microsoft onslaught both in terms of product and tactics.
by kopirgan 2y ago
Borland was really a pioneer, made great stuff.. Sad they couldn't survive the Microsoft onslaught both in terms of product and tactics.
- tomcam 2y agoIt was mostly unforced errors. They tried to compete directly with Microsoft by buying word processors, databases, making a spreadsheet, etc. It was pretty clear to me even at the time. Microsoft, on the other hand, is severely underrated for its ability to just not fuck up too often.
- kopirgan 2y agoYes it's interesting how many just did that.. Lotus, Novell. But iirc there were also some bare knuckle stuff involving C++ which was supposedly vastly better than VC but not given the right support as OS vendor.
- magicalhippo 2y agoThey made some serious strategical blunders that were entirely unforced, and they did so at a critical time. They drank every last drop of the enterprise kool-aid, and put Delphi on life support when spinnig it off failed[1], just as Microsoft got some .Net momentum going. A lot of Delphi developers saw the signs and jumped ship during those years. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeGear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeGear