> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Leigh Wanstead
> Sent: Tuesday, 7 October 2003 09:11
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: octane
>
> Can anyone confirm these three points?
(1) I suspect that this rumour has been started because Linux bites on the
desktop.
(2) Well you have to be absolutely stupid to believe this one. The new
Borland Developer Studio (C#Builder's IDE and the new Delphi IDE) are
written in Delphi. So Borland spends 12 months re-writing Delphi and the new
IDE in Delphi and then throws it away in 2 years? Huh??? This is so not true
it is laughable. Furthermore, Delphi has an ace in the hole - write your
code for Win32 or .NET and you can compile to either. Can you say the same
of VB or C#? We have even had a company just sign with Delphi for exactly
this reason - I would say to _any_ company - staying with Delphi is simply
the best choice.
(3) Borland is as committed as ever to the language based products. What it
is doing (hey, we expanded remember?) is focusing more on integrating our
ALM (Caliber, StarTeam, Together, Language Products (Borland Developer
Studio for .NET (the C#Builder, Delphi, etc), JBuilder/C++BuilderX
(completely new IDE released here in last month), etc, performance testing
and deployment (j2ee, corba, jdatastore and interbase). What this means is
that yes, the language products are no longer the be-all and end-all of our
product line, are we working on them just as hard? Of course we are! Delphi
still contributes a _significant_ portion of our revenue, we would be nuts
to drop it.
Richard
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