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
Lotus.
It actually seems Borland are doing a reasonably good job of tiptoeing through the .net, win32, java, linux minefield, each of which have their own particular bunch of mines, but any one of these'll be the dominant platform of the foreseeable future.
Phil wrote :
.NET is not a performance platform so has pretty minimal interest to me.
Honest questions: will it really be that much worse than win32? And wouldn't win32 be an equivalent proportion worse than Linux, currently?
Aside : anyone else noticed how much better XP is at not thrashing under a reasonable load?
Cheers, Kurt.
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