Re: Actually I am a little bit disappointed...

From: Michael Anonymous (Michael_at_Anonymous.net)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:25:11 -0600

Joanna Carter (TeamB) wrote:

>
> Take a simple formula:
>
> number of people on QC clamouring for W64 version (190)
>
> divide by number of Delphi licences (unknown but likely to be greater than
> 19,000)
>
> multiply result by 100 to get percentage
>
> Result := 1%
>
> Would spending more than 1% of R&D budget on W64 version really yield
> sufficient ROI?
>

Yes.
If there were three different version of Delphi certain people would
support Borland efforts by purchasing one or multiple versions of Delphi
thereby increasing revenue:
Certain people would by a Win64 version instead of the net version,
others would buy both.

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