If, as has long been the underlying reality, some one realsises that the IDE is of more interest to developers than CEOs, why doesn't some one from the upper shelves come and really start talking to and listening to the real customer base then?
Ages ago I wrote in here that they should truly recruit for shareholding amongst developers - shareholding related to the IDE(s).
If the one, or now we are told three*, million developers are really out there, and represent a genuine commercial investment for someone to come in on, then such developers must be a potential financial resource for investment themselves - even at only an average modest shareholding - it would be big money for Borland or who ever.
That is IF the IDE is a truly investable commodity.
If Borland doesn't think that the Developers are worth really properly trying to recruit for investment, then any other investors should review what they are being told about the developer base of the IDE(s) and the developers' commitment to it.
I would have been all in even only two years ago, but no one has genuinely and energetically tried to recruit us, and now I don't know what is happening - the signals in the press releases and interviews are mixed and disturbing.
Might a real developer based investment strategy be a useful bridge between current investment models, and the trends in development circles that Brown is trying to explore?
Paul A Norman
* "a fervent belief the new company can monetize its installed base of three million developers."
On 27/04/06, Kyley Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Interesting. I've been a .net avoider for simple reasons. It wont add
any business value to my current projects for the cost of change over.
Which is not to say that I may not look at it in the future.
Has anyone had a play with CHROME as a pure .net pascal language?
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Behalf Of Matthew Comb
Sent: Thursday, 27 April 2006 3:43 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] More Delphi news...
I have to say, after 10 years of Delphi programming, its a bummer to
think
that Delphi would drop away.
I would love to think that once all this DevCo stuff is behind them,
they
could kick on, however Im currently working for a large scale company
that
are looking to migrate from Delphi to C# and so have been learning C# on
the side. I'm sad to say but its just miles ahead. instantly debugable
webservices, instant integration with SQL Server and instant creation of
underlying schemas.
Within 4 hours, I had a Client Server setup with a database backend.
Server was WebService based, communication was in xml.
It has Anders written all over it, and everything we like that Delphi
had
is still there, its just been completed.
Interested to know what other people say about C#
the question is: If you were the CEO of a company that developed a
product, and saw your competitors release a product that was so far
ahead
of anything that you had in the pipeline, what would you do ? My answer
would be refocus. Which appears to be what Borland has done.
Thoughts?
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