Re: Corel Buys Inprise

["Robert Speed" <nospam [at] Viclabs.co.uk>]

On 8 Feb 00, at 9:59, Richard wrote:

> OTTAWA (Reuters) - Software developer Corel Corp. said on Monday it
> had struck a deal to acquire Internet access software and services
> firm Inprise/Borland Corp. in a $2.44-billion deal designed to

IMO they really went downhill when they changed their name - 'sas 
simple as that, we were happy with the name Borland, it stood for 
something (unlike MS Visual C (yeah, alright it could do some 
things better (better access to registers / stack, but then that was 
only of real importance to games/demo dev'ers))).


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