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

Brian Moelk wrote:

> > Ok, you see to complain about the current direction. What would
> > make you happy as a Delphi Developer? What does borland need to
> > do? Are these suggestion in Quality Cental? Have you voted on
> > them?
>
> IMO, Borland has to deliver something more compelling than what they
> have delivered. In addition, make it readily and widely accesible
> based on the Pro price point. Grassroots support and the educational
> pipeline is vital for a sustainable product.

Ok, technically what would need to be changed to make Delphi more
compeling? Is there something lacking that it needs? So far you have
mentioned items that R&D can't do anything about.

> I think QC is an inappropriate channel for this kind of discussion,
> and I'm not sure if Borland has a formal way of doing this at all. I
> don't know the name of our regional Borland sales rep, we typically
> buy from the online shop. I do know that dev relations reads these
> NGs, so it seems the most effective way is to post here and hope
> someone reads it.

QC is the best place to place suggestions and it is the direct channel
to QA and R&D at borland. If you have things like you mentioned
above, then I agree QC is not the best channel for this type of request.




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