Re: The Galileo IDE

From: Maxwell Smart (nospamneeded_at_home.com)
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:37:46 -0500

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:58:36 -0600, "Captain Jake"
<jake[nospam]@jsnewsreader.com> wrote:

>See, this is why some of us think your posts have no business sense to them.

Okay business boy, let's hear it...

Scenario 1: Leave Delphi the way it is with no more patches.
Scenario 2: Create the needed patches to fix the broken product.

I directly challenge you (or anyone else with "business sense") to
explain to me how you could possibly justify spending even just 5
seconds CONSIDERING the absurdity of scenario number one.

Please explain to me the cost benefits of leaving Delphi 2005 in the
state it is currently in, filled with hundreds of bugs, many of them
serious.

I've already posted this challenge a couple of times over the last few
days. I have yet to get a single response to it. There seems to be
no shortage of apologists making excuses for Borland...and yet not one
single person has been able to reply to my challenge.

As I already said in a previous post...Delphi 2005 represents a MAJOR
change to Borland's flagship product. They simply CANNOT afford to
f*$! this one up. If you don't see that, then you have no business
telling ME that my posts have "no business sense" to them.

> It's funny that you used the Tsunami relief effort as your example. NO
> relief occured immediately, and none without consideration. None.
>There wasn't a single cent of relief until a few hours after the catastrophe.

Given the fact that this was a world-scale disaster encompassing many
countries and hundreds of thousands of people killed, millions of
others left homeless, I'd say that "a few hours after the catastrophe"
was an incredible accomplishment.

You completely took what I said and twisted it around to suit your
purposes. Notice that I asked WHETHER there should be action taken,
not HOW SOON action should be taken. There was never any debate about
IF we were going to send help. Nobody in their sane mind ever
"considered" IF we were going to send help. There was nothing to
consider. The answer was a given.

This is the exact same way Borland should be responding to the D2005
debacle. They should not be asking IF a new patch should be released,
because given the current state of affairs, there's no "if" about it.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Architectural Problem: Own Adapter vs. SQL Adapter
    ... probably don't know about your scenario:) ... example having my custom app notifying of business state changes to external ... observers (aka biztalk and from there to third entities), ... It's fast (MSMQ was built to push messages into queues very, ...
    (microsoft.public.biztalk.general)
  • Re: Borland/DevCO has lost its innovative power
    ... Borland/DevCO is a business. ... Folks talk about all the features Delphi should have and how dead it ... Folks just assume that what they want is what everyone wants. ...
    (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)
  • Re: New ownership = No excuse
    ... Vista (for business use), on their hands. ... do with Delphi or Kylix anymore. ... a market to address. ... C# and Java generally offer at the language level. ...
    (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)
  • Re: Goodbye
    ... get NONE of my business -- as is my right. ... Right, I thought you were suggesting calling for a boycott, not simply ... It's the same scenario if they have the pills in stock but won't sell them ... They are simply not allowed to refuse to serve these people, ...
    (soc.culture.jewish.moderated)
  • Delphi7 still selling strong
    ... "Our develop business comprising our RAD .NET products and our java products ... dollars, or 16% of total revenues, up from 14% in the prior quarter. ... CaliberRM etc. Delphi is not mentioned here, ...
    (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)