OT: Any hope of RedHat buying the IDEs from Delphi?

[Rickey Moore]

--- Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> wrote:

> On 2/10/06, Rickey Moore <wayward4now at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Whatever happened to Michael whatshisname that ran Borlan?
> 
> Are you byy chance thinking of Phillpe Kahn? The guy that used to
> be
> picured in the Turbo Pascal ads sailing his yacht? He was on top of
> the world back then. Borland did some great DOS software: Sidekick,
> Quatro, Paradox...  Too bad though about the Ashton-Tate/dBase
> acquisition; the beginning of the end.
> 
> He is still around: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillipe_Kahn

Wow! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Sidekick was a great
little app. God, I used dBase with CP/M and MP/M... if code now was
as tight and small as it was then, you could run the Pentagon on a
486. <g>
Ric



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