Re: D64, or Why Borland Ought to NOT Work on a 64-bit Version of DelphiRight Now

From: Thomas Miller (tmiller_at_bss-software.com)
Date: 02/01/05

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    Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:23:09 -0500

    Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] wrote:

    > Eric Grange wrote:
    >
    >
    >>>If the total number of new PCs being sold will not replace the
    >>>installed base in less than 5 years, then no subset (64bit) of the
    >>>new machines will replace the installed base during that same time.
    >>
    >>And that is entirely, completely and utterly irrelevant.
    >>
    >>You sell software to your customers, and what happens to these
    >>customer is what is relevant
    >
    >
    > Correct. And if the customers (users) of the customers (developers) of
    > Borland are in any way rerpesentative, they will not have changed to 64
    > bit hardware by quite some time, i.e. 3-5 years. And selling a 64 bit
    > version to people who don't have 64 bit hardware is like selling
    > refrigerators to an Inuit.
    >

    I guess I am lucky because mine are not representative of
    the study, not even close. Now if I was doing business
    with Uncle Sam, it would be representative. 

    -- 
Thomas Miller
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