Re: Wild speculations about the "other" factors

Bob Dawson wrote:

"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)

Surely not 'coulda woulda shoulda's from you Bob ;-)

Of course Delphi has been starved of resources - which makes the
allocation of the available resources all the more important.


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.

Not exactly the most defensible proposition, is it?

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.

People with D5 had a very solid product, which requires no registration
/ activation. It could be argued that D6 + D7 only offered marginal
improvements for Pro-level developers who were not interested in Kylix,
Web Services or a .NET preview compiler. These people may well be
interested in Unicode, generics or some other real advance.

We never have solid numbers - we can only go by what we see here,
evidence from other online resources, job ads, personal experience,
experience of colleagues. If that prevents you from forming an opinion,
then OK. The most interesting real data I have seen was the breakdown
of the Turbo downloads by type. I was surprised by the strong showing
of C++, but the (lack of) interest in the Delphi.NET personality must
be a worry for DevCo. Unless all the people interested in the .NET
version only download direct from the Borland site.....

Ian

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