Re: Thinking Clearly

"Jim Cooper" wrote:

that still isn't nearly enough to win in this space.

It is not necessary for Delphi (or any other product) to "win". Otherwise
all we would have in the world would be a very large number of monopolies
:-)

Delphi has never won in any space. VS has always outsold it. Yet it's
still around.

The battle for the .NET space isn't your fathers battle for the Win32 space!

It only has to do sufficiently well in any space.

Regardless of what one thinks "win" means, there can be little doubt that if
DevCo's Delphi is to be viable in the future .NET space it must attract new
users to generate revenues to justify the outlay of resources in it's .NET
products. There are those who believe that VCL.NET (plus) ECO will not be
made sufficiently attractive to lure enough new users into the Delphi camp.

I have always thought that the BDS and VCL.NET was an absolutely brilliant
strategy necessary to bring calm and avoid rebellion in the loyal Delphi
camp but it would increasingly become problematic as .NET evolved and
morphed into what it will be with .NET 3.0. From what I know today it does
seem my concern was justified...


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