>> My biggest hope is that the brand "Borland" will go to the new company.
In truth, Delphi has been mis-managed from day one. They proved they could build a better mouse trap, but they utterly failed at marketing it. When going against MS, you have to be agressive and creative. Most people knew Kylix was going to be a joke and did ANYONE think Inprise was a good idea? How about that Office Suite debacle? Open sourcing Delphi would be a good move IMO as a great number of the current Delphi users use it illegally anyway. Besides .Net has essentially "killed" Delphi's future. Delphi is still a good language, but without new blood flowing into the fold it is a matter of time before it is a FoxPro, PIC or the like and there isn't any money in that market for a major corporation. >> My biggest fear is that the buyer buy only to harvest the customers and >> not to really continue the >> products. Not so worried about this result. It is likely anyone purchasing Borland would do so for their Java, source control or business design system. Delphi 7, 2005 and 2006 will continue to compile applications unchanged for the next 10 years much like FoxPro still runs at MS even though they have long left the language to rot. __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
