Can anyone confirm these three points? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of delphiuser Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 3:06 PM To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: octane
If you're into conspiracy theories then take note of the following... >From what I hear Delphi is dying not just Win32. I know of one company that is aiming to replace Delphi and all reliance on Borland products within the next two years (one year if they can manage it) because they heard through a reliable source that: 1. Support for Kylix is ending and no further versions will be released. 2. There's a good chance that in less than two years support for Delphi will be dropped 3. Borland's focus is shifting from the language based products (Delphi, C++, C# etc) to the new flagship products such as "StarTeam" Unfortunately this information about Octane only adds fuel to the fire... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Vowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:39 AM Subject: RE: [DUG]: octane > Win32 is dead, time to bury it. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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 http://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/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
