> After Heilsberg moved to MS, a lot of improvements were made in VB that utlimately made Delphi less attractive, especially during Borland's strategic waffling known as "The Inprise Years": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland#Inprise_Corporation_Er...

This is (from Borland's telling) not an accident. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29513242

Hard to not waffle when your major competitor hires away your top talent.