Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!spock!kim
From: kim@spock (Kim Letkeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Borland C++ upgrades
Message-ID: <3476@kim>
Date: 4 Jun 90 20:55:45 GMT
References: <756@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM> <76.UUL1.3#5109@pantor.UUCP>
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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In-reply-to: richard@pantor.UUCP's message of 31 May 90 15:22:25 GMT

In article <76.UUL1.3#5109@pantor.UUCP>, richard@pantor.UUCP (Richard Sargent) writes:
| > From: jcotugno@KSP.Unisys.COM (Jim Cotugno)
| > Message-ID: <756@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM>
| ...
| > That's funny, I've gotten upgrade notices and new product announcements for
| > just about everything Borland sells.  I've never had a problem with them on
| > that point.
| 
| That's funny. I have filled in just about every product registration
| card I have ever received, and almost never have received upgrade
| notifications. Not one from Borland, nor Zortech, nor Microsoft.

Don't use crayon ... just kidding :):):):):):):):):):)

| And, it's not as if Toronto, Ontario is in some benighted corner
| of the third world. :-(  (Politics aside, of course :-)

A good friend of mine regularly gets upgrade notices from Borland over
here in Ottawa. Perhaps it's just the luck of the draw. Might be worth
sending a letter or making a call if you haven't had any luck.
Borland has gone through periods of shipping hundreds (thousands?) of
packages daily. This no doubt causes some strain on their support
organizations.

| This is pretty sad, considering that Canada represents about
| a 10% market from North American sales (based on population).
| That represents a lot of potential, but ignored, revenue.

This generalization might be a bit sweeping considering the sample
size of 1.

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Kim Letkeman    uunet!mitel!spock!kim