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From: Chip Eastham on 13 Jul 2007 14:29
On Jul 12, 6:30 pm, "Frank J. Lhota" <FrankLho.NOS...(a)rcn.com> wrote:
> "Chip Eastham" <hardm...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1184275246.740753.256780(a)m3g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Jul 12, 6:46 am, "Frank J. Lhota" <FrankLho.NOS...(a)rcn.com> wrote:
> >> Frankly, I'm amazed at how many products that Borland had purchased that
> >> were sent to the scrap heap soon after.
>
> > I'm interested in seeing an example or two
> > of what you are thinking of, re: Borland.
>
> They bought a CM package called Sorcerer's Apprentice. Soon it was
> abandoned. Then they bought a popular programmer's editor called Brief from
> Solutions Software. After buying Brief, Borland did no updates, and
> eventually dropped the product. Then they bought the newer program editor
> CodeWrite from Premia. That they actually did maintain for a while, but that
> product was also allowed to lapse.
>
> > regards, chip

Thanks, I now have an appreciation for
the sorts of products at issue. Loss
of support for version control software
would be painful!

regards, chip

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