[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] Borland's Database

kraus@motcid (David Kraus) (09/05/90)

>>>>> On 2 Sep 90 11:53:39 GMT, dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett) said:

> But I have gotten three more copies of the offer, all in the last 72 hours.
> This seems a bit ridiculous.  One at the office and one at home might be
> tolerable, but the two at the office differed only in that one showed my
> department name and the other my title...

Well, if it's any consolation, they've got at least 3 if not 4 of my
addresses (current, at least 1 school, and parent's) in their database.
When I called them to upgrade my Turbo Pascal Pro from 5.0 to 5.5, the
person at Borland read off all the other addresses for my name.  I told him
what my current address was, and that they should get rid of the others.
Apparently they haven't, as I'm still getting mail from Borland at my
parent's address at least, no telling about any of the school addresses...

So, they're a little disorganized; we knew that....  They still put out
good products.  Now if Microsoft were disorganized in the same way.....
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