Richard It would be interesting to know what the borland product mix is, How much interbase does it sell. My evaluation was based on the fact that much of your product line is in a risky market. M$ are going to push for .net to be the middleware killer then CORBA and Appserver products are is also at risk, as are Interbase (from commercial products as well as OS), JBuilder, Delphi.
Also don't forget that 90% of .net code will probably end up being written in VB Neven ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Vowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:44 AM Subject: RE: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] Delphi 8 and .net > So what you are saying is that Delphi and .NET IDE languages are > commodity products and we should concentrate on other areas like > testing, modeling, requirements management, software process management > and deployment? Good idea! > > Yes, there are a few well known "Delphi" names over on the .NET list and > we hope with Delphi 8 there will be a whole lot more :-) Personally, I > think .NET is great - it is the Borlandization of Microsoft - so if it > helps to make the life easier of people who develop software then I'm > all for it and I know that Borland is as well. > > Richard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of James Sugrue > Sent: Monday, 26 January 2004 7:58 a.m. > To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' > Subject: RE: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] Delphi 8 and .net > > You just have to take a wander over to the NZ DOT Net list group to see > names that used to be on this list, using C# now. That can't be good for > Borland or Delphi. As you say the other tools Borland has will probably > see its future rosy, but I'm more interested in the future of Delphi. > > If even ex Delphi developers can't see that there is a reason enough to > stay with Delphi over C# then that can't be a good thing surely. > > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
