[ale] Borland (was Xen)

[Greg Freemyer]

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.
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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
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> 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.
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> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> On 06/23/2009 07:49 AM, Jeff Lightner wrote:
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> Right but it goes on to say they’re folding it into their own Oracle VM and
> that both were based on Xen.
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> 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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