Stephen Posey wrote: <I disagree, Alan expressed a general political view without naming (much less attacking) anyone on the list personally. Mark's comments were a direct personal attack on Alan for his views.>
Well, he certainly called Bush a liar, which seems quite a personal attack to me... I can only say I disagree with Alan, not no much with his opinion on the current American foreign policy, but to me this is completely off-topic and it really has nothing to do with the current state Delphi is in. Cameron Cole wrote: <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.> Now tell me what technological challenge FoxPro was to MS? None at all. It was an old MS-DOS app ported to Windows, based on old DBase technology. They just wanted to get the FoxPro customers. And I think the same may be true for Delphi. Apart from that I believe Delphi - or at least Pascal - would be interesting for MS, as it is a solid programming language with obvious benefits compared to others. I assume I don't have to explain that to you Delphians. Peter Laman Senior Software Engineer Lance ICT Group Roermond, the Netherlands http://www.lance-safety.com __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
