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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The sign wasn’t there when I left town in early
2001 but was maybe there on my return in late 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I know the building (The Platinum Tower is
its name) has been there longer because in 1991 the company I was working for
was supposed to move there and ended up going somewhere else instead.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jerald Sheets<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:27
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Atlanta
Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] Borland (was
Xen)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It's been there as long
as I've been here, and I got here in 2004. Was here a lot in 2003, and
remember it being here then, too.<br>
<br>
<br>
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---<br>
Jerald M. Sheets jr.<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Greg Freemyer <<a
href="mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com">greg.freemyer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>That signs been there for years, but I still don't know what they do
these days.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:25 PM, <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Jeff Lightner</st1:PersonName><<a
href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> What does Borland do these days? A year or so ago they put their
name on<br>
> top of a building near the NW I-285/I-75 Cobb Cloverleaf.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> ________________________________<br>
><br>
> From: <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] On Behalf
Of Asher<br>
> Vilensky<br>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:33 PM<br>
> To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run
Linux!</st1:PersonName><br>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Xen<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> It's funny to me to read "Borland" and "smart" in the
same sentence. At the<br>
> time, they brought an entire dev team from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>
to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:place></st1:City> -
only to lay<br>
> everybody off a month or two later. Saw it with my own two eyes.<br>
><br>
> -- Asher Vilensky<br>
> <a href="mailto:ashervilensky@gmail.com">ashervilensky@gmail.com</a><br>
> Home: 404-377-8434<br>
> Cell: 404 452 8642<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM, <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Jeff Lightner</st1:PersonName>
<<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> If they’d been smart they’d have done what Borland did after they bought<br>
> dBaseII way back when and already owned Paradox. They’d just issue
updates<br>
> to both products so they were exactly alike. Doing it this way just
annoys<br>
> your install base who say to themselves: “If I’ve got to migrate why<br>
> migrate to something these putzes make – might as well do something else.”<br>
> Then again many vendors will create a “migration path” before dumping
stuff.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> ________________________________<br>
><br>
> From: <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] On Behalf
Of Brian<br>
> Pitts<br>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:28 AM<br>
> To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!</st1:PersonName><br>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Xen<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On 06/23/2009 07:49 AM, <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Jeff Lightner</st1:PersonName>
wrote:<br>
><br>
> Right but it goes on to say they’re folding it into their own Oracle VM
and<br>
> that both were based on Xen.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Since I never heard of Virtual Iron before I can’t say much about
it. If it<br>
> was Open Source then they can only quit supporting it themselves without<br>
> killing it. However, I wonder if the reason it is being killed
isn’t<br>
> because no one ever heard of it and it had an uphill battle against
VMWare,<br>
> Xen and other options.<br>
><br>
> This thread was started by Jim posting old news about Oracle buying
Virtual<br>
> Iron. It turned out that within a month of buying them, Oracle fired
almost<br>
> everyone and discontinued the project. It seems like a rather expensive
way<br>
> to get more customers for your own product.<br>
><br>
> I am pretty curious to see what happens in the Sun xVM v Oracle VM fight.<br>
><br>
> All the best,<br>
> Brian Pitts<br>
><br>
><br>
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