UNLESS.....you are still supporting win32 apps. and dont have the time or resources, i..e money, to upgrade the client to .NET. Its also a waist of time converting an app. to .NET if the client still uses Windows ME or lower which a lot of people still do.
This is not ness. my experience, but an observation. Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Richard Vowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 11:39:58 +1300 Subject: RE: [DUG]: octane > Win32 is dead, time to bury it. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Robert martin > Sent: Monday, 6 October 2003 11:10 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: octane > > > > I have no other information than you but the way I read the letter was. > > > > We were running into time issues with D8, we had completed the .Net > portion > of Octane but not the Win32 part so we decided not to update it in this > release so we could ship on time. > > > > As an added bonus for Borland they can then use updates to the Win32 as > a > reason to upgrade to D9. As most Developers are still in the Win 32 > world > there seems very little incentive to go to D8. We put off going to D7 > because we didn't need Bold / net preview etc. As we are supporting an > existing win 32 app there seems no incentive to go to D8 either. > > > > PS I am big into conspiracy theories. > > > > Rob Martin > Software Engineer > > phone 03 377 0495 > fax 03 377 0496 > web www.chreos.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
