Why are there more VB developers than Delphi?
Probably because VB is more accessible, marketed better, got M$ throwing
it in people's faces at every opportunity, ...
Typical M$ strategy really!
Just my 2 cents worth ;)
Regards,
Bevan
Dennis Chuah wrote:
>
> Ponder over this:
>
> The Corel / Inprise merger is off. M$ BUYS Inprise. Delphi is renamed to
> VB! We all start to write code like MyHeader!Items["Header
> Caption"].Caption! Disgruntled employees then leave to form a company to
> write Kylix (or some other cough mixture name). M$ sues them for $$$. Then
> M$ gets split up!!!
>
> Seriously, I don't really care either way. Is Kylix really going to take
> off or is it going to be eclipsed by Java? Is that the right direction for
> Inprise? Inprise should look at its past; Delphi is a great tool (heaps
> better than VB), yet there are more VB developers out there. One has to ask
> why?
>
> Regards,
> Dennis.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Good call, Dennis :), hopefully they would be better than the
> > current crop
> > of Delphi icons/bitmaps.
> >
> > Anyway, I agree with Richard - what do people think? I'm not
> > sure if we are
> > allowed to comment (its usually "please refer everything to
> > Ray"), but I for
> > one am interested what our customers have to say, even if we
> > can't talk back
> > to them at the moment.
> >
> > My take on it, as a long time Borland customer/user before being an
> > "employee": I dont care one way or the other*, but my order
> > of preference
> > yesterday (ie, pre collapse) was:
> >
> > *as long as Inprise continues to make top flight tools
> > (Delphi/JB/Kylix
> > :)/AppSever etc)
> >
> > 1) dont merge. I dont see what Inprise had to gain from it.
> > 2) wait and see (ie, what was happening for the last few
> > months) It sucked
> > waiting to know tho.
> > 3) merge, if you have to. See #1.
> >
> > I dont see what Inprise had to gain out of a merger (not
> > takeover) with
> > corel. I can see what Corel has to gain tho.
> >
> > Oh, well. Its unlikely to change the focus of the company (Linux /
> > Enterprise), and interbase is still likely to be OpenSource,
> > so if I left
> > Inprise today (I'm not) and went back to be a non-affiliated
> > developer (like
> > everyone else other than Richard), I'd be a happy camper - my
> > 4 favourate
> > products (Delphi, IB, JBuilder, AppServer) on all the
> > platforms I give a
> > toss about (Windows and Linux).
> >
> > Just my 2c.
> >
> > N
> > --
> > Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
> > Inprise/Borland New Zealand
> > Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his
> > chickens in his
> > trousers?
> > For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and
> > worst, will he not
> > disappoint the ladies in the village? --Alexi Sayle
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > > Behalf Of Dennis
> > Chuah
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2000 14:52
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > > Subject: RE: [DUG]: So what do people think of the
> > Corel/Inprise/Borland
> > > not thing?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Darn, I was looking forward to 100000 clip art and fonts with my
> > > next Delphi
> > > CD.
> > >
> > > Dennis.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > No comments so far.
> > >
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