[ale] Borland (was Xen)

[Jerald Sheets]

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.



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Jerald M. Sheets jr.


On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> That signs been there for years, but I still don't know what they do these
> days.
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Jeff Lightner<jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > 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
> >   ashervilensky at gmail.com
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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.
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > 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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