Re: Proposal: Delphi VCL+RTL as open source



Adam Roslon wrote:
>
> In article <42efa383$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, johnk@xxxxxxxxxxx
> says...
> > I doubt it. It took 5 years to get QC approved in the first place.
> >
>
> Well John that seems to be a huge internal problem which shouldn't be
> taken lightly. Borland was always known for it's quickness to respond
> and be ahead of the curve.

It was approved back in 2000. You are acting as if this approval just
happened. It also happened early in the Fuller administration, it was more
previous admins that procrastinated.

>
> Just a thought but, could you image it Borland didn't jump out in front
> with Java and waited for Microsoft's JVM before getting into the java
> market there would be no JBuilder and maybe no Borland.

JBuilder at no time was the savior of Borland. Delphi at one time was. There
was a time that JBuilder was producing hte most revenue, but not by a large
percentage more than Delphi. Actually, without Delphi there would have been no
JBuilder.


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