[ale] Borland (was Xen)

[Jeff Lightner]

What does Borland do these days?  A year or so ago they put their name
on top of a building near the NW I-285/I-75 Cobb Cloverleaf.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Asher Vilensky
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:33 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Xen

 

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.

-- Asher Vilensky
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com>
wrote:

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.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Brian Pitts
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:28 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Xen

 

On 06/23/2009 07:49 AM, Jeff Lightner wrote: 

Right but it goes on to say they're folding it into their own Oracle VM
and that both were based on Xen.

 

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.


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.

I am pretty curious to see what happens in the Sun xVM v Oracle VM
fight.

All the best,
Brian Pitts

 

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