It's funny to me to read "Borland" and "smart" in the same sentence. At the time, they brought an entire dev team from Russia to Atlanta - only to lay everybody off a month or two later. Saw it with my own two eyes.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Lightner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">If they’d been smart they’d
have done what Borland did after they bought dBaseII way back when and already
owned Paradox. They’d just issue updates to both products so they were
exactly alike. Doing it this way just annoys your install base who say to
themselves: “If I’ve got to migrate why migrate to something these
putzes make – might as well do something else.” Then again many
vendors will create a “migration path” before dumping stuff.</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font color="black" size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: windowtext; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font color="black" size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: windowtext;"> <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Brian Pitts<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:28
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Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] Xen</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: windowtext;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On 06/23/2009 07:49 AM, Jeff
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Right but it goes on to say they’re folding it into
their own Oracle VM and that both were based on Xen.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Since I never heard of Virtual Iron before
I can’t say much about it. If it was Open Source then they can only
quit supporting it themselves without killing it. However, I wonder
if the reason it is being killed isn’t because no one ever heard of it
and it had an uphill battle against VMWare, Xen and other options.</span></font></p>
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</span></font>This thread was started by Jim posting old news
about Oracle buying Virtual Iron. It turned out that within a month of buying
them, Oracle fired almost everyone and discontinued the project. It seems like
a rather expensive way to get more customers for your own product.<br>
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I am pretty curious to see what happens in the Sun xVM v Oracle VM fight.<br>
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All the best,<br>
Brian Pitts</p>
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