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mikey@shuksan.UUCP (Mike Fields) writes:

>I just received the upgrade notice in the mail.  They list the upgrade
>price from Turbo C pro or Turbo C++ pro as $99.  My complaint is
>that why did I just pay $125 in Sept. to upgrade from 2.0 to `
>C++ and now it is the same price to upgrade as if I still just had
>my Turbo C 2.0??  I called Borland and was told that if my version
>had been purchased in the last 60 days, the upgrade would be free.
>I really appreciate paying $125 in Sept, getting the 1.01 upgrade
>which fixed the initial release in November 90 and now being told that
>I could have saved my $125 by waiting 6 months.  Thanks a lot folks!!


Worse, last fall, I took advantage of Boreland's offer and "upgraded" from
microsoft c to turbo c++ professional for $149.  Last week I got an upgrade
notice in the mail that I could upgrade my package for a "special" price of
$399!

This combined with the bushel basket full of bugs that are intolerable in
a commercial development environment means that I'm going to have to
write Boreland off as a toy compiler again.  This is the second time
I've allowed Boreland to bite me. Shame on me.  As much as I hate it, I'm 
going to have to upgrade my Microsoft compiler.  Too bad.  Boreland has
forgotten what made them great.  Now that they're playing pricing
games like the competition, they're going to be judged by the same 
criteria.

John

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