Re: Inner-smile.com - What happened to it?

From: Wayne Niddery [TeamB] (wniddery_at_chaffaci.on.ca)
Date: 06/06/04 

Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 12:40:52 -0400

I R T wrote:
> The local university library once had a number of Delphi , BCB and
> Jbuider books around 3 years ago.
>
> The Delphi books have all been tossed out.
> Only one JBuilder and one BCB book is left.
>
> Over the same time, they have bought around four or five hundred
> programming books ( unix , oracle ,java, C++, C# ) and at least 50
> MS specific ( NET C# Visual studio VB ) books.

Publishing consideration and shelf space is a simple function of economics,
stores are obviously going to give space to those items that will turn over
the fastest. In relative terms Delphi has always been (obviously!) a much
smaller market than VB, C++, and for varying reasons some others too.

In its first years there was some shelf space *precisely* because it was a
new product with new interest and so reasonable sales could be made. Since
then the novelty of a new product has dissappeared and publishing/shelf
space reflects more accurately the proportional market shares. The same
principles also drive job sites and recruiters of course. This same effect
is true of all other products as well - there was an initial hit of Java
books a few years ago that has also leveled off, and the same will happen
with C#, the only difference is their overall volumes are so much larger.
The idea that this pattern indicates Delphi is dying requires ignoring this
simple pattern. 

-- 
Wayne Niddery - Logic Fundamentals, Inc. (www.logicfundamentals.com)
RADBooks: http://www.logicfundamentals.com/RADBooks.html
Bandwagons are like streetcars, there'll be another along in a few
minutes.

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