> No one can ignore the fact that NET is the future of Windows, and
I am yet to be convinced. With the improvement of rich web client experience (AJAX, Flash, etc.) it's really hard to say. In the past 10 years it's pretty much Windows dominating the client platform. In the next couple of years, web, MacOS and Linux will have their significant share in client OS/platform, and neither of them have much to do with .NET. (Yes, I know mono but it's not there yet, and it's not backed by a large company ... yet and it's also playing catching up - a game they are not supposed to win.) Then, applications going web-centric, or to MacOS or Linux, is not necessarily the best news for Delphi developers, either :) > Microsoft has in its employ a great marketing machine making sure the larger > commercial clients will want to use it. That opinion, no matter what we may > think of it will trickle down to even the smallest customer. Even I, who > only does work for very small businesses am being asked if my apps will > provide them with the benefits of NET. And it matters not that they haven't > a clue what these benefits might be! To be honest, I, who have developed applications with C# on .NET, don't have a clue either :) In the end my company threw away the C# app because of its poor performance and large memory footprint, and re-did it in Delphi native code. Maybe some Delphi developers on .NET can educate me a bit about the benefit from their real experiences. I think it also largely depends on the type of applications. Jack __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
