Sounds good - after all only Delphi developers appreciate how good the IDE is.
But that still leaves the question of Kylix? Where does this stand in the Borland arsenal? ----- Original Message Follows ----- > > -----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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > 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/
