Morning all despite the fact that this topic is a bit stale, i thought i would forward my colleague's comments.. (he is a linux freak)
> Oh good, yeah I thought it sounded a bit nuts for them to just drop it. > :-) (Mind you companies do stupid things all the time, just look at MS). > > I don't like think I like his remark about Linux on the desktop though. > The latest KDE or Gnome are much nicer to use than Windows XP with its > Fisher Price baby toy look and feel. I think the main reason people put > down Linux on the desktop is the security (which is missing from > Windows), people have a fit just because you need to go to the command > line and switch to root to install things, unlike Windows where you can > just browse to the wrong website and have endless crap installed onto > the system. <sigh> > > Hmmm, I might check to see what the price is for the basic version of > C++ Builder X for Linux. Too bad I'm not a student any more. :-( > > Oh well, anyway, that's good news :-), all you need to do now is stick > to your guns to make sure that for any .NET development you get to use > Delphi. It shouldn't be too hard to make a good case for that, all your > existing knowledge should count for a lot, and I'm sure we could find a > lot of good reasons why Delphi is a better solution for .NET than > Microsoft's cruddy tools. > > c u 2 moro, > > Jon. > > > Tracey Maule wrote: > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Richard Vowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 10:44 AM > >Subject: RE: [DUG]: octane > > > > > > > > > >>>-----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/
