[comp.sys.next] Borland

6600dadg@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Mark Dadgar) (02/15/91)

In article <2753@autodesk.COM> glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang) writes:

>Executive summary for IBM:

>1) Take OS/2 and give it a decent burial.
>2) Make SAA a reality, and standardize on UNIX (AIX).
>3) use NeXTStep as the standard graphic interface, and come up with 
>   a reasonable facsimile for character oriented terminals
>4) Buy Borland, and take MS on in the applications market.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^

Oh Lord!  Why ruin a great company like Borland?!!

BTW, when is Borland going to start porting their applications to the 
NeXT?  Quattro Pro would be a thing of beauty on a NeXT machine.


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