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by pjmlp 1481 days ago
That is what reduced it to its current niche, and made many of us suck it up and move to the less capable Microsoft tooling (MFC vs OWL/VCL, really?).

They decided to go after the enterprise market with enterprise prices, and with it killed the indie devs that were loyal to Borland and their great tooling.

It was also a key point that finally triggered Anders to accept the calls from ex-Borland colleagues working at Microsoft.

https://behindthetech.libsynpro.com/001-anders-hejlsberg-a-c...