All these comments flying through... I thought I will put my views
too....
FACTS:
Back in 1998, I wanted to buy Delphi. I contacted the "all India!!"
supplier in the country. Told him what I needed. They guys never got
back to me. Know why? Because they simply didn't care. That's
understood. So I contact Borland directly and they tell me I should talk
to the "all India" suppliers. Hmm... catch22? The projectfinally didn't
get anywhere for the following reasons:
1. too much time to get hands on Delphi,
2. client wasn't sure if it would be the right language to program in.
Results... we didn't buy Delphi. Borland... are you listening??
In the so-called "consumer driven" markets, it looked like Borland
clients are on lowest priority.
I met Terry Versace, Asia Pacific manager for Borland and expressed deep
grevience about the sorry state of Delphi in India. I can literally
count on my fingers the number of books available for Delphi...6. And if
I am being extremely generous...8! Training centers? That I cant
count... because there aren't any!! India's considered a leading
software development country and trust me if Borland couldn't take a
lion's share in the market, its not because of their tools (which we all
know)... it's because they simply have nothing up their sleeves when it
comes to marketing and promotion. Yeah, they had couple of road shows in
some metro cities but it fizzled out.
I have been a developer for over 4 years. Don't program much, mainly
design architecture now. Delphi still remains my favourite tool. I stuck
on because I know the language, VCL and can't even compare VC or VB with
it... but if Borland doesn't make changes in it's strategies... who
knows! I am not surprised now when I mention Delphi and people
respond.... "What's that??"
best regards,
NIRAV KAKU
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz
To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with body of "unsubscribe delphi"
