> I looks to me like Borland doesn't know were to take Delphi, so they are > not... they are just drifting along with the crowd.
Hey guys lets cut the big B a little slack, M$ are going to force .NET and kill Win32 (in the spirit of having 'freedom to innovate') and Borland need to survive, This is hardly drifting this is more jostling to avoid being crushed, History is littered with the bodies of those who were not this pragmatic (OS2, Novell Netware, Wordperfect ....) Im sure you can add your own Neven > > Regards > Paul McKenzie > Analyst Programmer > SMSS Ltd. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phil Scadden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 9:00 AM > Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Delphi 8 .net win32 et al > > > > > Bit of a lazy Friday today, so I thought I might see the ground swell of > > > opinion in the Delphi community on the recent developments at Borland... > > > > Frankly I think Borland are taking their direction from M$ instead of > their > > user community. .NET is not a performance platform so has pretty minimal > > interest to me. On business application front, IT is heavily into java and > arent > > about to change soon. Certainly very unlikely to deploy MS Server anytime. > > > > Oh for a win64 Delphi in the wings... > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences > > 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand > > Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" > > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/
