Re: .NET myths debunked.

From: Dennis Landi (none[at]none.com)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:03:06 -0500

"Michael Swindell (Borland)" <mswindell@dontspam.borland.com.ih8spam.org>
wrote in message news:3ff0be86@newsgroups.borland.com...
> A point of major significance is that Win32 will be supported as a
*legacy*
> API in Longhorn and beyond. Microsoft has made it clear that most, if not
> all, new APIs will be managed code APIs and no longer introduced as C APIs
> ala Win32. In the very near future if you're developing for Windows, you
> will have a significant advantage if you are developing for .NET - and
> that's over and above the inherent advantages of memory management,
> security, reliability, scalability, ASP.NET, and more that the .NET
runtime
> and framework provide today.
>

A point of even more significance, that I will reiterate, is that *all*
windows developers have the choice to continue to develop with Win32/64 code
or develop with the new .NET apis. This is a fact.

It is also a brilliant strategy. .NET will succeed because of its merits,
or it won't succeed. Either way MS still owns the OS whether the apps are
developed with Win32/64 or .NET...

The limitation/restriction on the horizon is the lack of a natively compiled
64-bit compiler for Delphi.

<prediction>
This makes us less competitive against the C++/.NET camp, who will be
henceforth more capable to handle *all* software development scenarios as
opposed to borland developers with no access to 64-bit native compilation on
our chosen tool-set.
</prediction>

Borland NEEDS TO DO MORE.

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