Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!voder!apple!eddings From: eddings@apple.UUCP (Ken Eddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Is borland abandoning Macintosh? Message-ID: <6814@apple.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 13:10:42 EST Article-I.D.: apple.6814 Posted: Tue Nov 24 13:10:42 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 01:28:19 EST References: <1394@bgsuvax.UUCP> <6804@apple.UUCP> Reply-To: eddings@apple.UUCP (Ken Eddings) Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA Lines: 31 In article <6804@apple.UUCP> lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) writes: >In article <1394@bgsuvax.UUCP> denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten) writes: >>Found in PC week 22 sep 87, page 148: >> >>> ... early in 1988 ... there's a good chance Sir Kahn's company will >>> have sold off most of its Macintosh product lines, currently offered >>> by Borland to several firms including Apple's software spinoff, Claris. >> >>This really concerns me. > >A few weeks ago, Borland announced they were going to set up a new Macintosh >products division. They also signed an agreement with Apple in which the 2 >companies would define and develop communications products. (This is from >p.3 of the Oct 13 MacWeek.) > >We even had a big party here in honor of the agreement, so it must be true. >:-) > >-- >Larry Rosenstein > >Object Specialist >Apple Computer > >AppleLink: Rosenstein1 >UUCP: {sun, voder, nsc, mtxinu, dual}!apple!lsr >CSNET: lsr@Apple.com And at this party, they had a nice 5-piece jazz ensemble that played for the evening. It was only as the party was breaking up that I met the sax player and found out that he was Philipe Kahn himself. He's not a bad sax player for a mover-and-shaker!