Re: where will the action be ?

> > What do you think Borland should have done - a few years ago, armed with
> > different information, not committed to .net?
>
> Provide and head for differentiating technology, rather than try
> on jump on MS's bandwagon with the rest of the sheeps?

So you think they could seriously have, three years ago, just ignored the
latest MS bandwagon and 'way of the future' and not suffered for it?

> How does being some secondary .Net development tools help?

I don't know if you're even seriously asking this or just trying to stir the
pot. There are heaps of ways, credibility with PHBs being just one of them.

> It can only be trying to play catchup with MS. Under .Net MS controls
> the programming libraries, not just the OS and system APIs.

I totally agree.

> > 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.
>
> Well, the .Net preview was in D7 wasn't it?

Yes, but they spent years from go to D8. I'm sure they started .net research
and development well before the D7 .net preview was made available.

> If they have the same delays in
> maturing a 64 bit compiler as in maturing the .Net one, it doesn't look
like
> they'll have 64bit support any time soon.

Exactly. But by the same token, they've probably already started researching
it.


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