Re: Dreaming a New Delphi Era

In most cases, yes, but this isn't the case if you're an ISV. IMO Delphi
must find ways to distinguish itself from its competition. If it
continues
on a Windows-only path, I think it will be tough to beat Visual Studio and
IMO they have already lost "the Enterprise" in that space anyway.

I like your "mentality" on this one, except that this statement could have
been made from the start. Beginning with DOS, what MSFT has done for us is
make programming commercially successful on a single platform, and MSFT
benefited. Thanks to windows, we learned what kind of software is
commercially acceptable to the end user. Non-windows environments were
crappy/crude, so Borland had no choice but to follow the successful platform
with what was already the pioneering development IDE. In doing so though,
it's always had to suck hind tit. The set of possibilities has increased now
though, and Delphi has got to take this into account to maintain interesting
profitability.

Rich Internet applications are the only cross-platform client applications
that make any sense IMO.

Really? So play the story out; If RIA gets traction, how strong will the
business case be for ease of deployment and lower tco, no matter what the
latest windows interface is. The "look" marketing angle is getting worn out
for windows. If RIA offers enough usable functionality, which will of course
improve over time, some of the most important "look" that windows provides
will be whatever IE looks like.

I agree with that. I think it's crucially important to get .NET 2.0 and
Win64 out the door before entertaining any cross platform stuff. After
that, I'd probably start with Mono since it would be the easiest
crossplatform strategy to implement.

Sure, I'll go with that: Get .net 2 and w64 out the door, but even if mono
may be the easiest way, I don't think it's the most strategic way. I'm open
to changing my thinking on this, but there are other cross-platform schemes
out there that seem more mature than mono.

James


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