Robert's email says it well. When I started a new project early this year, I really wanted to get D7 instead of D2005. However, Borland didn't sell it any more. D2005 has nice features but for what I want to do (Win32), it's fat and slow with a seriously incomplete help. It seems that D2006 goes further in this direction. Borland is too eager to go .net. Another team in my company did a project in C#.NET. The slowness and huge memory footprint make people think of redoing it in Win32. All said, I understand Borland's decision to embrace .net that anxiously to some extent. They want to stay ahead (and away from Win32 in particular because MS says .net is the future.) MS defines the direction and Borland just rushes in without looking :) Well, it's a little unfair to say that - they did a good job with Delphi, and they don't have much choice for the survival of the company. But D2005 has been disappointing and D2006 doesn't seem to be rectifying the mistakes. No matter how, I hope Borland do well and Delphi gets the attention it deserves.
-- Best regards, Jack Tuesday, October 11, 2005, 3:36:48 PM, you wrote: > Even though they "announced" it's release, not their intention to, I > knew that is what is was, however I think the reason so many of us are > frustrated by an announcement like this is that it's the same old thing > again! Borland's ideas on Marketing seem to be aimed at the kind of hype > that you throw out at stockholder's meetings, and NOT in actually doing > anything to get their products into the hands of the people who use them. > That quote was right out of a similar statement made about Delphi 2005, and > it doesn't mean anything more today than it did then! __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
