Re: PC Plus magazine (UK) - Delphi 8 review

From: Erwien Saputra (erwien_at_nospam.codeilne.dot.net)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: 25 Feb 2004 18:51:32 -0800

Wayne Niddery [TeamB] wrote:
>
> I honestly believe you are badly mistaken here. *Even if* most are
> not ready to go into full production of .net apps, most want the tool
> in order to learn, research, and experiment as part of forming their
> plans for actual development later. They cannot do this if the tool
> is not available. But in addition to this, ASP.NET is (already here*
> - already being used extensively for new development.

Learning needs resources, and if a company already invested in VS.Net,
it can be really hard to justify extra cost to buy Borland's tool. For
new development, of course.

> While it cannot be said they are beating down Borland's doors, there
> has been a noticeable number of people coming into these newsgroups
> over the last couple of years who have explicitly identified
> themselves as disaffected VB users that, faced with rewrites to
> VB.Net, decided to give Delphi a look-see instead.

That is good news. Hopefully enough for Borland to make business case
for Delphi W32. I think we still do not have Delphi Win32 that
officially supports Windows XP.

Wien.

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