Re: Wild speculations about the "other" factors

"IanH" wrote

I agree with Michael's description of "table stakes" for .NET: they
must have a minimum level of capability to even be in the game,
[...]
IMO, the opportunity cost of the .NET development has been too high.

Ths is where diagnosing the past gets tricky. Why say the cost is too high,
rather than saying the effort was underfunded? (DTG is hiring)

Native code development has not advanced as it should have done,

I don't think anyone is disputing the idea that there is still room for
win32 improvements.

I would say that the number of people choosing not to upgrade to
BDS from D5 - D7 is a strong indicator of this.

Hard to weight that point properly without solid numbers. Even if we posit
that Nick's "Why aren't you upgrading?" thread indicates that upgrade
percentages have fallen off--we still don't know by how much or even when
(failures to upgrade from D5 or D6 can hardly be blamed on .NET focus),
since D7 predated that.

bobD


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