Excellent said, jw! However your Delphi 6 experience was a mistake. Delphi 5 was on the market 3 years before 6, while 6 was (I think) 6 months (or so) before Delphi 7. Delphi 6/7 have come mostly with Web Services that did not exist when Borland firstly released the 5th version. In spite of the fact that Delphis way of doing Web Services is better than Microsoft's, by then I had to finally consider my marketability with Microsoft versus Delphi. Even after 3 years since I pull the wire and made the switch, my huge Delphi experience is not at all an asset on my resume, I have big doubts about keeping it there
So jw 5: five was the good number for Borland! Seven was bad luck Horia ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J Wise Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [delphi-en] Delphi Q&A - Is Borland committed to Delphi? Hello, Borland was long ago, a mighty big outfit. I used SideKick when it was a small TSR desktop tool back about MSDOS 3.0 days. Then they came out with a utility product called Dashboard, I bought it and never used it. I, also, never used Paradox but I jumped on the Borland bandwagon when they took over dBase from Asthon Tate and stayed with dBase through 5.5 for Windows. I used Turbo Pascal all the way through to the Windows version 5.0 and Borland C++ through version 5. Delphi 1.0 came along and was said to be the "Visual Basic Killer," So I bought it and then Delphi 3.0 and then Delphi 6.0. I am "done" buying Borland development tools. They are becomming too expensive and too often. Years ago, had I have swallowed the "Microsoft-lump-in my-throat" and jumped to VB and Access, I would be countless thousands of dollars ahead in income and in my marketability as an independent programmer. I never realized it before keying this response but Turbo Pascal stopped at version 5, dBase for Windows stopped at version 5 and Borland C++ stopped at version 5. Borland must be improving because with Delphi I was able to reach a version 6. Just my $0.02 worth. Take care! jw ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/i7folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
