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I've been using Delphi for 7 years, from Delphi 1 (and I've been using Borland Pascal before,) and I use to think that Delphi was the best. However, about three years ago, I was sensing that the market goes in another direction, and not for once Borland was playing games with its developer base (remember Inprise episod? Borland C++ which iritated Microsoft? JBuilder which was eclipsed by... Eclipse? C#Builder? Delphi.Net? what about Sidekick?!? Kylix? - I still think that Borland was good only at Delphi for Windows, while its market strategy sucks!) >>>>>>>>>>>>> Some of Borland's marketing initiatives were stupid, but a lot of the problems were with the changing nature of the market. Today's applications are not Win32 oriented but web oriented. Kylix was ahead of its time. I still hope that Linux for the desktop will take off as well as Linux for servers has. >>>>>>>>>> So, three years ago I've reoriented myself to .Net. .Net 1.1 was a mess, but worked. These days I'm on .Net 2.0 and is preaty good, maybe as good as Delphi 5! I've done some research in Avalon, and - believe me, what is comming will change everything for everybody! (Avalon will unify the development for OS with development for Web.) In the end a developer has to do what a developer has to do: go with the market, and I agree, Delphi is no more on the market, and what's left of it, will go out soon. 8^( What do you figure yourself working with five years from now? ... >>>>>>>>>>> With the emphasis on browser based apps, I wonder about MS's lock on the operating system in the future. What is the advantage of going to a 64bit OS if everything will be run from a browser? The next five years will be just as tumultuous as the last five have been for I/S. Tom Nesler ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
