Re: Delphi Product Manager questioned

On 16 Jun 2006 10:59:09 -0700, "John Kaster (Borland)"
<johnk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

J. Lee wrote:

IMO, this notion comes from the realization that Borland/DevCo's
gamble on the .NET initiative has received the lion's share of
resource devotion for the past several years.

This is a misinformed realization.

We have tons of new features in the IDE, and significant new work in
the VCL, that benefits our Win32 customers directly.


I don't think it's entirely misinformed. Of course what you say is
true - there has been some work to the IDE and VCL that benefit D32
customers. However, the 'devotion' that many want to see seems to be
related to D64, compiler optimization, and unicode - none of which
seem to be receiving much attention.

Michael Swindell pointed out the obvious when he stated that D64 being
on the roadmap showed that it was important to Borland - at least more
important than the myriad items not on the map. However:

- .net obviously has higher priority than D64;

- keeping up with new .net versions is going to require a lot of time.

If .net has a higher priority than native code generation, and there
is not likely to be a break in keeping up with the latest versions of
..net, it could be concluded that the likelihood of D64 rising to the
top of the priority list is slight.

I'm not arguing that native Delphi is dead, only that based on our
meager knowledge it could be reasonably concluded that the prospects
for it are poor.

-ckd
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