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by boffinAudio 988 days ago
Its so sweet to see JLG with hair (page 7). :)

Seriously though, those quotes are hilarious .. especially Kahns' - this would be seem to have been quite a determined position for him to take, given Borlands' subsequent near-complete disinterest in the platform in the following years.

I wonder what Borland would be today if they hadn't ignored the Mac? Delphi for MacOS? Wow, what that would have done for us all ..

Or, better yet, Delphi for BeOS. Just another case of "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!" coming to the wrong minds at the wrong time ..
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tpmx 988 days ago
Borland did not die because they ignored the Mac, they died because they tried to transform from being a sub $100 consumer/mass-market product company to an enterprise offering and failed at doing so. The Mac wasn't a factor.

They still would have died when Linux/open source took off though. They didn't own a platform.

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