Re: Stop the negativism!

Hi Nick,

First, before I jump on this soap-box, I want to thank you for your
participation and assistance in these fora. And I am serious. That
said, I'll go ahead and add my, unfortunately somewhat negative
appearing, two-cents worth: (When things are going well, you don't
often hear from the likes of we low-profile users. I'm sorry about
that.)

| I think that we are
| constantly re-evaluating our roadmap based on customer input. I think
| that you provided valuable information that will become part of all
| the input we get. I think that the course we ultimately take will be
| based on what you and others have said here, as well as a lot of
| other input from many other customers and from many other sources.

I think the presently published "roadmap" doesn't appear to have a
thing in it for me, for example. <sigh>

And I'm still very unhappy with the poor performance and crashing of
BDS2006 (Win32 environment) that continues to haunt me to this very
week. At one time, until recently, I had D5, D6, D7, D2005 and BDS
2006 environments all on my development system. I took everything but
BDS2006 off, thinking there might be some unknown interaction
responsible for the problems. No change. Right about now, I'm sorry I
didn't just stick with D7. Which was, in my mind, the last robust,
functional and reliable Delphi version Borland released. D8 was a
disaster, D2005 flaky and BDS 2006 is fraught with mysterious,
apparently bloat-ware related, problems.

Roadmap? How about a solid, functional and reliable Win32 Delphi
base-product, with true 64-bit functionality, to start with?!

This is just my personal perspective, which I'm sure you understand.
But I don't see the "vision" in the presently published roadmap. To me
it appears to be more of a mirage. I wish I could still have the
starry-eyed vision I saw when I bought my first Turbo Pascal 1.0 CPM
package in 1983. I think Simon is more on-the-mark than you might like
to believe. Which makes me wonder a bit about the old saw "Can't see
the forest for the trees." However, I don't live in your shoes, so I
admit that I cannot know of the truth of your situation.

However, I do expect that you and the team are working your virtual
butts off to try to pull the very real fat out of the fire.

You guys have a very tough road ahead. With or without a map. I wish
you the very best of good luck!


--
Q <still, for the present, a long time loyal Borland customer>

10/13/2006 15:15:26

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