Re: Is there a future for Borland in .NET?

Dominic Willems wrote:

> Would there be any statistics about what group of developers are
> moving to .NET, I wonder.

I know its not much of a sample, but 100% of the last two companies to
employ me are migrating to .NET. One was mainly a Visual Studio shop,
with me as the renegade Delphi developer, and my current employer is
predominantly a Delphi shop. Most of our new development will be in C#,
although Delphi still has a strong future there.

In fact, my boss talked to me today about upgrading from D6 to D2005
for some of our serverside stuff, and we're all currently busy porting
an existing C++ app to D6 (with a week and a half deadline given to
us). And we have a Delphi for .NET app in production, thanks to me. <g>

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