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    <dc:date>2008-11-19T05:46:13-08:00</dc:date>
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      <description><![CDATA[They're still converting. Windows 2000 is only now barely stable enough to keep them afloat. They tried to convert to NT early on; it was a total disaster.]]></description>
      <title><![CDATA[Not yet.]]></title>
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	 (Brett Glass)
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      <dc:date>2000-09-26T12:41:44-07:00</dc:date>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sorry, Brett. Hotmail runs on Windows 2000 now.]]></description>
      <title><![CDATA[Hotmail is W2K]]></title>
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	 (Peter Whysall)
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      <dc:date>2000-09-24T14:40:08-07:00</dc:date>
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      <description><![CDATA[En lo personal estoy muy agradecido con los paquetes de la Borlenad, principalmente con Delphi que es con el que trabajo. Creo que valdria la pena esperar la version de Linux y empezar a explotar tan esperado paquete y saber si cumple o no las espectativas. Aunque tampoco se puede exigir mucho al respecto ya que Linux no es un sistema tan viejo como los de Microsoft. Pero si me gustaria plantear una gran espectativa con respecto a Delphi, y es saber si existe entre los planes de la Borland crear una paquete Delphi con ayuda y todo e español?? Esta es la mayor preocupacion de la Comunidad de Delphirianos de Habla Hispana.I want the package Delphi in Spanish.Thank you very much.]]></description>
      <title><![CDATA[Sobre la Comunidad de Delphirianos de habla Hispana/ On the communities of the "Delphirianos" with spanish lenguage]]></title>
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	 (David Gonzalez Romero)
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      <dc:date>2000-09-11T14:34:02-07:00</dc:date>
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      <description><![CDATA[While they've replied to other messages here, they haven't replied to the one above. From this, I can only concluded that Borland hasn't changed. Years ago, I warned Borland that its insistence on focusing on one platform -- Windows -- was dangerous to Borland, and this turned out to be true. Borland's refusal to support platforms other than Windows practically destroyed the company.The company is now coming to the same crossroads in the world of UNIX-like operating systems. Will it support only Linux, whose license -- the GPL -- was specifically designed to undermine and destroy commercial software companies such as Borland? Or will it broaden its base and support the BSDs, which are licensed under a license which is beneficial rather than malicious and destructive? Will Borland put all of its eggs in one basket again? The company is certainly prone to do this, as some of the employees who seem to embrace this myopic strategy -- such as David Intersimone -- are still there. The fact that Borland does not even to have considered the BSDs (when I asked them about BSD at a recent trade show, a Borland representative responded, "Which distribution of Linux is that?") shows that it may still be wearing the blinders that caused it to fail before. I hope that Borland will prove me wrong and support the BSDs, but that hope is fading fast. I may have to abandon Borland's tools forever.]]></description>
      <title><![CDATA[Looks like Borland really DOES have a platform agenda after all.]]></title>
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	 (Brett Glass)
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      <dc:date>2000-09-09T10:21:13-07:00</dc:date>
      <pubDate>2000-09-09T10:21:13-07:00</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hi ! I am from India the land known for its Microsoft Professionals. Wherever u see in India there would be VB or Java, but no one even knows that a product called Delphi exists. What is the Marketing division of borland doing ? I am an odd man out here and planning to switch my career to VB if this trend continues. ]]></description>
      <title><![CDATA[No one knows delphi in a land full of software professionals - India]]></title>
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	 (Krishna kumar Natarajan)
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      <dc:date>2000-09-02T09:06:45-07:00</dc:date>
      <pubDate>2000-09-02T09:06:45-07:00</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[I agree with you. More: X couple OS and tools to 'trap' the customer in your fingers and force to continue using these OS an tools. More: X hide the needed doc to build good competing tools... The marketing weakness of Borland/Inprise is terrific: in Spain some managers simply don't know Borland exists!!  many don't know what is Delphi and the rest believe VB is more productive than Delphi. Borland can and *must* publish good marketing stuff in your community, an then, partners as us can do better work.I expect more comments as this to convince Borland to focus in great marketing...]]></description>
      <title><![CDATA[re: Inprise needs more &lt;&lt;Corporate Marketing&gt;&gt;!]]></title>
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	 (Jorge L. Cangas)
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      <dc:date>2000-08-30T08:44:29-07:00</dc:date>
      <pubDate>2000-08-30T08:44:29-07:00</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[X has more share than Inprise (on Windows platforms) because IT executives buy a packet : they figure that since they buy an OS from X, they should buy the software development tools from X, because the tools are so well connected to the OS.We know the opposite is true : the strength of Delphi is that it hides the OS complexity to let us build cheap, efficient and user friendly software : the developer concentrates on his user's needs, not the OS's.This fact must be published, but the marketing must have a precise mind as a target : the buyers, the people who take the decisions even if they don't known about software building. Delphi, C++Builder, JBuilder and the other tools must be valued by those people as earning-money-software, as reduction-time-to-market-software. Why aren't there any precise measurements of the advantages of Inprise's solutions ? figures ?Where are Inprise's commercial people ? They should be haunting the corporate headquarters of every major US and International corporation, with the partner's commercial people doing lesser corporations. WHERE ARE THEY ?]]></description>
      <title><![CDATA[Inprise needs more &lt;&lt;Corporate Marketing&gt;&gt;!]]></title>
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	 (Thierry Coq)
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      <dc:date>2000-08-25T09:22:32-07:00</dc:date>
      <pubDate>2000-08-25T09:22:32-07:00</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[You write:"Borland has no platform agenda. Our goal in this world of competing standards is to protect you from vendor and platform lock-in. As a developer using Borland tools, you are in the best position to take advantage of whatever platform standard solves your customer or end-user problem. The Internet is the future, and the Internet has no platform agenda."In that case, why is Borland not developing Kylix for BSD UNIX? Our clients use OpenBSD on many of their machines because it is secure by default while Linux is often not secure even after extensive reconfiguration. And we use FreeBSD in house because it is a superior server environment and will not contaminate our code with the GPL -- an anti-business, anti-programmer license explicitly and intentionally designed to destroy programmers' livelihoods. Yahoo and even Hotmail (much to Microsoft's embarrassment!) use FreeBSD on their mission-critical servers. We need to target applications to BSD platforms. We cannot risk being "locked in" to Linux any more than we want to be locked into Windows, and therefore cannot use Kylix unless BSD versions (command line compilers at the very least!) are available.If your assertions above have any meaning at all, make Kylix available for BSD. We'd gladly help you do this. BSD uses the same GUIs as Linux and very similar APIs to those of Linux, so it is easy to develop for both simultaneously. I was one of the original users of Borland's Turbo Pascal and the author of several early Borland products (including Turbo Pascal Tutor and the Turbo Editor Toolbox), as well as a contributor to several others. It dismays me that I cannot use Delphi on the platforms with which I need to work. Please contact me about porting to BSD.Brett Glass (brettglass.com)]]></description>
      <title><![CDATA[What about BSD, then?]]></title>
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	 (Brett Glass)
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      <dc:date>2000-08-24T18:52:20-07:00</dc:date>
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      <description><![CDATA[There is an XML file you can download and translate into your native language, then merge into the Borland Translation Manager repository. This XML file provides a base level translated product for all the VCL components. please go take a look http://codecentral.borland.com/codecentral/ccweb.exe/listing?id=15142 ]]></description>
      <title><![CDATA[re: We NEED more International languages support]]></title>
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	 (Paul Johnson)
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      <dc:date>2000-08-24T07:30:09-07:00</dc:date>
      <pubDate>2000-08-24T07:30:09-07:00</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[MS build up their name and market share faster then Borland... why? From what I know is that their products are more user friendly, supports and documentations are better.]]></description>
      <title><![CDATA[An Open Letter to the Delphi and C++Builder Community]]></title>
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	 (Hon Wan Lau)
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      <dc:date>2000-08-23T18:22:23-07:00</dc:date>
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