> Maybe MS will take over the whole bundle and bring out a super VS and > include Delphi with all the Delphi .Net features (bugs) fixed.
I think if MS buys it, it becomes FoxPro in which MS just shelves the product. However, I don't see why they would buy it. They usually buy a product for technology or to stop competition. At this point they can't see Delphi as having any technology they want nor do they see it as real competition any longer. They would be better off buying Chrome (for MUCH cheaper) and integrating it so they have Pascal.NET rather than forking over several million for a product they can't really utilize. I don't see them embracing Pascal for any reason honestly. I am still holding out for Open Source. It is a tough business since someone would have to shell out serious bucks to buy out those products from Borland and then hope they could turn enough money from corporate licenses. On the plus side, it is easily the best way to extend Delphi's life as a lot of companies are now looking for Open Source products as a requirement (mainly government requirements). We can all hope that a company like MySQL would buy out Borland since an open source tool to go with an open source DB makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, MySQL is still in a tailspin from that Oracle situation. __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
