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- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!bobatk
- From: bobatk@microsoft.com (Bob Atkinson)
- Subject: Re: Is Borland the leader in technology?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.235541.20563@microsoft.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 23:55:41 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Nov17.124222.12003@bsu-ucs> <1992Nov18.121647.3720@fwi.uva.nl>
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- Richard Ronteltap (I87) writes:
- >>Borland claims to be the leader in Object Oriented Programming. Why do
- >>you feel they can hold this title in concern to the latest in technology?
- >>I am looking to see what advantages they offer as opposed to other
- >>companies.
- >
- >I think it is because the new Paradox 4.0 can store 'exotic' data types
- >such as pictures and other Binary Large OBjects (BLOBs).
-
- Just small FYI: Micosoft Access has similar capabilities, in that it can
- deal with OLE embeddings in a table / form / etc. Though this mechanism
- it not only handles pictures, but other things, such as spreadsheets, drawings,
- graphs, etc.
-
- Bob
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