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Steve Guo wrote:

> After Borland discontinued OWL, I hesitate to use any Borland/Inprise
> product including JBuilder? I am wondering how you guys feel?

This belongs in the "non-technical" newsgroup.

Well, each has his/her own level of tolerance for change.  
Anyone who has been programming for more than a couple of years 
has probably change environments, frameworks, and languages 
a number of times.  That Borland dropped OWL was a good thing
since it got replaced by one of the best frameworks around --
Delphi's VCL.  Were I to rank them, Delphi is probably number
1.5 behind Apple's (formerly NeXTStep/OpenStep's) App and Foundation
Kits.  MFC and OWL don't make the rankings (the cutoff is 3).  
Yes, that means that the framework I cut my teeth on, TurboVision,
doesn't cut the mustard either.  No sniffling or boycotting Inprise
over that, for sure. 

To all that old stuff, I say, good riddance.  We've moved on, 
and for the better.  And if not for the better, at least the
change is refreshing.  I know that is at odds with lots of folks 
who are still hoping to revive DOS and keep their apps under 640K.
Gee, that reminds me of the rear-guard actions to get CP/M
to bank-switch RAM to breath new life into it.  Yes, good riddance.

And a big YES to Inprise products.


Paul Furbacher

P.S. I'm extremely biased since they gave me a T-shirt for
the November STAR award.  I'm easily bought.