Question from a dinosaur coder..

> My understanding is that Microsoft headhunted some
Borland Delphi
> developers, paid them to sit on a beach of a year until
their non-compete
> Borland clauses expired, then got them to write Dot Net
to compete with
> Java.  So it would naturally have a Borland/Delphi feel
to it.
>
> Just another example of Microsoft's usual
copy-or-buy-out
> process.  I can't
> actually think of a single product that Microsoft
pioneered.
>

did they acquire COM? and DCOM?
Alan


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