Re: Visual Studio 2005 Express in now permanently free...

"Nathaniel Walker" <nate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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ITA. It's not that I'm trying to "bash" Borland, I am not. But as
someone who has [and probably will] pay [paid] for many Borland products
it seems unacceptable to get such performance/quality out of such an
expensive buy.

That's a general problem with software across the board, not just with
Borland.

And it's not really the performance/quality; it's how they handle it.
They've handled it terribly. As I've stated, they have been delivering
sub-par products since they entered the Windows development tool race.

Well, "sub-par" implies more than just "buggy", it implies that features are
lacking as well.

My personal experience with BDS 2006 Pro has been much better than my
personal experience with VS2005 Pro. I've not been getting the problems with
BDS that others have had, and with 2GB of RAM even the Together-based
modeling and refactoring stuff is working fine now, after I installed the
second update. It's mostly been the superior features (for what I've been
doing) in BDS that have led to that experience being better than my VS2005
experience.

However, if reading these newsgroups has taught me anything it is that YMMV.


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