Re: where will the action be ?

> > Some of us here predicted your assessment over 2 years ago.
>
> i too had my suspicions two years ago, but it has now become bleedingly
obvious.
>
> if Borland has made one mistake, it has been trusting Microsoft on future
> platforms too much.

I really do not see this the way you do.

What do you think Borland should have done - a few years ago, armed with
different information, not committed to .net?

How seriously do you think they'd be taken in the market, and where would
they be now?

I think the right thing then (unfortunately, because it was a lot of
resources tied up in this) was to dance to MS's tune and do Delphi/VCL.NET

. . and the right thing now is to give themselves more options and do a new
VCL for native Win 32/64 that supports unicode controls, more RTTI /
reflection (so ECO can be ported to native Win 32/64), etc.

And, since Borland don't often announce their research plans till things are
near the end and definite, maybe this is what they are looking at now.

IIRC, they didn't announce they were doing Delphi.net till they'd spent
quite some time on it already, and 'everyone' was screaming for it.

Lauchlan M


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