Re: The perfect formula for users to help D10(D2006?) succeed

"Captain Jake" <jake[nospam]@jsnewsreader.com> wrote in message
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> I think you are committing the classic post hoc ergo proper hoc fallacy.
Two
> things happening at the same time does not imply a cause and effect
> relationship between them. In this case it is most likely that it was CF
> support in .NET and Borland's contractual obligation to support .NET that
> caused Borland to work on CF support. If competition was the catalyst it
was
> most likely competition from the big guys like MSFT that prompted CF
support
> in Delphi, not the few hundred copies of Chrome that were sold. Afterall,
it
> has been possible to do CF development using VS.NET for years now.
>

My reason for using Delphi is to generate software for commercial purposes.
I run a small development shop and our goal is to be profitable. In order
to satisfy my customers needs we had to buy Visual Studio and develop CF
applications using C#. This cost money, this cost time, and we still have a
fair amount of Pascal code which I need to translate to C# or simply create
an assemble using our existing code base. But guess what, we cannot do that
for CF using Delphi. So what are the options? rewrite the code, wait for CF
support, use Chrome... If I had to bet, CF support is being driven by a
need to offer a solution at least equal to Microsoft's. I would also take a
smaller side bet that Chrome's touting of CF support accelerated the
announcements by Borland.

Maybe Borland's announcement of renewed interest in CF support was just
coincidental to Chrome's release. But in truth, it matters not why Borland
is now pursuing this, only that they are. But I find it interesting, that
my observation that Chrome may have been the catalyst has sparked such a
response.

> Innovation in the corporate world is seldom, if ever, driven by
*competition*
> from minute firms with microscopic advertising budgets. In the case of
Delphi
> it is very obvious that D2005 are not being adversely affected by the
> availability of Object Pascal alternatives, both from observing the
Borland
> financial reports and from anecdotal evidence of increased Delphi-oriented
> work requests here on the newsgroups.

Our shop is successful at its niche and we compete against some very large
firms (much larger than Borland), start making in roads into their customer
base and they notice you. Marketing budget or not.

Mark



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