Re: [Delphi 64-bit] Observation for the day

From: Tim Jarvis (no_at_spam.for.me)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: 6 Feb 2005 23:04:39 -0800

Kostya wrote:

> > Borland are in a pretty good position to know their marketplace,
> > and they are the ones who have the right to make that decision. We
> > can whine about it or move away from their tools or just get on
> > with it, the choice is ours.
>
> Borland is in its right to do whatever they want including dropping
> Delphi completely and nobody ever argued with that. However people
> are buying their products for particular reasons/set of features.
>
> If particular customer feels that the features he wants are being
> ignored of course the customer will start ranting about it
> and has every right to do so even if that particular customer
> is in great minority. Why should this customer care about
> the others or about the internals of Borland?

Absolutely, I have no argument with this. I do care enough though to
warn about spending time in what i believe to be an excercise in
futility. i.e. its unlikely in the extreme that any decision makers in
Borland will alter a decision because of posts in this newsgroup, And
its not as if Borland's position hasn't been made abundantly clear, at
this stage I am not sure what the vocal 64bit advocates hope to achieve
in here ?
 
> Also if enough customers start whining there is a chance
> of vendor taking this into account. happens all the time.

Sure, but do any of you really think that it will happen based on posts
in here ? As a peer support mechanism these groups are brilliant (and
is exactly what they are designed for) , but as a delivery mechanism of
"Developer pulse" to Borland, frankly they suck.

> > Cable connection (and I'm the only one on the node, so no
> > contention) and a good newsreader (xananews) so I have choices, I
> > can always ignore it if I like.
>
> Again why should you care about people with slow connections?
> There is much better solution to deal with it, namely to

I didn't mention that I care about people with slow connections, I just
mentioned my fast connection ;-) and the fact that *I* have no issues
with the extreme number of 64bit posts...personally I think that people
with slow connections would be better off not being in Non-Tech at all,
as the signal to noise ratio is always going to be favouring noise,
even without the 64bit posts.
 
> I do not know what mainstream is.

Yes, I can see where you are coming from, development is extremely
varied and complex to catergorize, but I guess you could agree that
.NET currently provides support for windows development, database
application development, web development, distributed computing etc,
things that are necessary for a great number of general computing
tasks, and targets OS's that are widely available and indeed have a
broad installed base right now, today.

Cheers Tim.

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