David I is a corporate dude. Of course he is going to write that crap. He is trying to get a marketing position in who ever takes the products over, if anyone does. His announcement was full of corporate crap and it was an embarrassment reading it. What do you expect from someone who doesn't want to be introduced to unemployment benefits? No doubt that is where he could be heading.
In my view Delphi days are numbered. Glad I saw the light a few years ago and moved to C#. Still do some Delphi work, but C# now dominates. Funny how in this list contributors have rubbished VB. It has been around for what seems a 100 years and still going strong. Everyone has praised Delphi, where is it heading to now? The scrap heap. Exactly where VB should have gone. Do what I did, look at where the demand is and move on. Also the arguments for Delphi open source should be ignored. Who on this list is competent enough to contribute and has the time. Look at TurboPower, they went open source when they changed direction. All that happened was the code you didn't pay for was available for free, those who paid for it got no benefit. What advancement has been made to the TurboPower code? None. Who on this list added enhancements to LockBox, Abbrevia, OnGuard etc. None. What are you going to do if Delphi was open source. I'll answer that question, bugger all. Stop kidding yourselves with an Open source Delphi. Who on this list would be capable in contributing to Delphi Open Source with MS tech change? If MS went 64 .SomeOtherNet how would a bunch of unpaid people get Delphi up to scratch compared to a bunch of paid Borland Delphi guys who have struggled to keep up with the changes? I can answer that - no one. How confident would I feel with an open source Delphi, when I recognise a name of a contributor who asked a question on this forum how to convert a date to a string? In my view any talk about open source is a waste of keystrokes. Forget it. Move on, learn C++, C# or VB and prepare for the inevitable. This is where the opportunities are. Not, and unfortunately with Delphi. It has already been on a slow death after D7, let it die peacefully and be remembered with Fortran, Assembler and Cobol as an excuse to have a public holiday to commemorate what they achieved in their times. Eventually, for those that don't have a legal copy of Delphi, will find it on a CD stuck to the cover of a computer mag. It is sad, but times change. We must accept these changes and stop holding on to what we loved and move on. If you don't want to, then the version of Delphi you have can still create eze's and may create a short term earning solution for you. Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Meek Sent: Friday, 10 February 2006 3:49 AM To: 'Delphi-Talk Discussion List' Subject: RE: Borland to sell off developer tools First, what the heck is "Peloton"? <g> Then I have to ask myself what the hell David I. is even trying to say? It seems that in one breath he's committing to a prior knowledge of a spin-off company that will absolutely take on all of Borland's current Developer related resources and management, while in another breath doesn't even know who or if there is a buyer being directly talked to! He or no one else can guarantee what another owner will do or not do once the ink dries on the sales contract, and there's certainly no way under American corporate law to enforce any prior agreements that can't just as easily be broken...even if made a part of the contract! All they have to do is say a hurricane devastated their profits and so can do whatever the hell they want! What's he trying to sell here with this statement? If it's his best wishes for the future, yes they sure are grand and I'm all for them, but it sounds to me like little more than a plea to the community not to run and hide before an idiot buyer can be found and the asking price has to be lowered a couple million! Borland, with or without its developer section is not a sound investment in the current world market, and certainly not with the tremendous initiative that Microsoft has put behind NET and VS! from Robert Meek dba Tangentals Design CCopyright 2006 __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
