Re: Delphi for Obsolete.NET - Microsoft's Plans Realised?

Andy Gibson wrote:


.net is sold as having the ability to be cross platform, while never actually giving you that option. Mono will never be on the ball, and MSFT is betting that people will develop in .net for XPlatform capabilities, and stay with windows because mono isn't up to par.

Cross-platform is no argument for or against .NET.

So far any attempts to *sell* a decent programming platform such as
Kylix for Linux have failed because people are used to not having to pay
a penny for Linux stuff. Mono won't change that one bit.

So far the Mac was relatively uninteresting because of its limited market
share.

What remains is Windows.


But some of this may change now the Mac uses an Intel CPU.
MacOS is not unlike Linux. Porting Kylix to Mac should be possible.
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple were genuinely interested in acquiring Delphi.



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