Re: Borland snubbing out the hobbyist programmers with Delphi 2005

From: Dan Barclay (Dan_at_MVPs.org)
Date: 10/17/04

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    "Nick Hodges [TeamB]" <nickhodges@gmail.com> wrote in message
    news:417115ab$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
    > Leonardo Pasta wrote:
    >
    > > What I know is that they donīt have the financial power of a
    > > Microsoft or a Sun or an IBM, therefore we cannot expect they to use
    > > the same tatics of them.
    >
    > Here's a candidate for the wisest thing said in this whole thread.

    I don't know if they should use the *same* stragety as MS, Sun, or IBM, but
    they must use *some* strategy to bring new users into the pipeline. The
    only alternative is to sell more and more stuff to fewer and fewer people.
    That strategy leads to turning out the lights in a few years.

    It's not unreasonable to use the same strategy, on a smaller scale matching
    their capability. I wouldn't dismiss the idea so quickly. But, regardless,
    they really need to make it easier and more attractive to get new users
    onboard. Converting users of other products (VB is a good example) makes a
    lot of sense in the short and mid-term. Even then, they will eventually
    need to feed the pipeline with new blood.

    Dan

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