Daniel Stenning wrote: > Lets face it, neither GCC or Xcode have much need commercially to keep > providing new sexy features - neither the open source community or Apple > need to derive any income from their tools. Hence one can expect to see much > higher fix to new feature ratio. > > Neither does MS really - for VS - since it is a de facto standard in so many > ways - or a monopoly. > > RS has to derive a real income from its technology, and it has to keep > moving with the market, aiming to attract new customers. MS doesn't need to > do this, GNU doesn't, neither really does Apple. I'm not excusing the > bugginess or rushed nature of the last release, but I do think the weighing > factors and market conditions should be borne in mind. Plus its history that > IDE manufacturers regularly go to the dogs. Its a risky market. Clipper, > Symantec C or Borland have all been victims of a harsh moving market. The > open source brigade, Apple or MS don't have these concerns. >
Seems to me like RS is both prisoner and victim of their own strategy, rather than being pushed into a corner by the competition. Ronald Vogelaar http://www.rovosoft.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
