Re: Borland Delays Quarterly Results

I kinda agree, but Visual Basic was the only real native development
environment other than Visual C++ in Visual Studio 6.0, and was
deprecated for good reason.

FoxPro is at version 9 (or is it 10? I forget), and Visual InterDev is
gone in favor of Visual Web Developer and the integrated web
development tools in earlier versions of Visual Studio .NET, thank
God. You can still do classic ASP apps in later versions of VS.
Heck, FrontPage offers alot of functionality in that end these days.
That's about the only thing missing (VB6).

The only thing I see is the natural progression of development tools.
I'm sure some Pascal fans pitched a fit when Borland transformed it
into Delphi. They just had a much smaller customer base.

The only thing I'd like from Borland is a more streamlined, and up-to-
date developer experience. That is, up-to-date .NET support,
better documentation, updated VCL.

I think a hybrid compiler would be the best thing, looking at things now.
But that's already been discussed at length in another thread.

- Nate.

"Dan Barclay" <Dan@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The best for us users would be an investor group that left the DTG as a
separate company.

A "buyer" with interests in the developer market or, worse, a platform
market would likely use Delphi as a way to leverage their own interests.

Take a look at VS. It's purpose in life is not to provide what developers
want, it is to push Microsoft's vision. The only reason you an do native
WinApps in it at all is because MS needs C++ for their own products. Had
it been built for developers they'd have eased into .Net (if they went
there at all).

New platforms at MS would be useless without their ability to drive
developers onto them.

We need progressive, but independent, people driving DevCo.

Dan




"Magnus Flysjö" <magnus@nospam> wrote in message
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Ahh, come on! Some serious discussion please. :-)

It would be nice if Google bought it, but I hardly think so.
However, a large company with hype could really make those decision
making people (often with poor knowledge and fear of everything that
isn't Microsoft) around companies to lean over to the BDS alternative.

"John Wester [Group W]" <johnno.spamwesterat@xxxxxxxxx> skrev i
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Magnus Flysjv wrote:

Lets start a discussion about possible buyers.. Who do you all
think/hope for it will be?

Paul McCartney. He's got a billion or so in his wallet...


--
John Wester
Life is complex. It has real and imaginary parts.






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