Re: Diamondback more productive than VS.NET?

From: Alan Questell (alanq_at_pinehurst.net)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:07:14 -0400

I don't think VS.Net is very sluggish at all. It actually loads on my
computer faster than Delphi 7 does. Once it is loaded, it works (at least to
me) very nicely UNTIL you access the help system (MSDN), which is pretty
slow. However, it is quite a bit more "help" than Borland ever had in any of
their products. So it's a good tradeoff as far as I'm concerned.

That aside, I question whether it would not have been a better idea to offer
Delphi as a language inside of VS.Net, and then offered their other
technology as addons. I just don't know how many people (except for many of
us) who are going to spring for a new IDE. In other words, will Borland be
able to attract any new customers to this IDE? I would be surprised if they
did.

Don't get me wrong; I'll be buying the new version of Delphi, but will they
be able to gain much of the market?

"Mark Van Ditta" <nospam@nospam.wanted.here.org> wrote in message
news:416ed964@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Please tell me that Diamondback is more productive than VS.NET. VS.NET
> turns RAD into SAD (sluggish application development).
>
>

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