Re: Comparison about Win32 / DotNet / CSharp on Delphi, and a wish ...
- From: "Kim Madsen" <kbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:02:20 +0100
Hi,
Kim, I agree with you.
Cool :)
If I compare what is required for a job position, you are perfectly right
Delphi knoweledge is almost never required, whereas .NET is.
But it's not about job position, it's about what make Delphi software a
bestseller or not.
And honestly, moving to .NET has not been for Borland/Codegear something
that can be considered as a good move.
It has imo been a move that they could not avoid. The main market is still
on the Windows platform regardless if we like it or not.
And between all the major companies, the Windows platform now equals
developing for the .Net framework.
That may change... but if you havnt something to provide for that platform,
you are essentially not even considered as a development platform between
those companies.
Object Pascal/Delphi used to be an language/IDE for the hobbyist, just as
Linux used to be an alternative OS for the hobbyist.
but one day, borland decided to follow competitor corporation standard to
be part of their game.
Its all about evolution. If they would continue to focus entirely on the
home developer, Delphi would have been dead today. Delphi will only survive
if it earns money.
In old days, jobs often used what home developers used as the home
developers brought that technology into the job.
Today its the opposite direction. The workplaces dictate what to use and
developers will have to accept that to a large degree. Its a money, PR,
buzzword driven environment more today than ever.
In the meantime, Linux grew with their own idea and open standard, not
following microsoft goodwill.
Yes, and so tried numerous other OS's where Beos was one of them... which
died.
There is only room for very few OS's in the mainstream market... and even
today Windows have a very good foodhold there.
Linux is imo still a much more interesting platform (commercially) for the
server side market, which is also why Im preaching that
CodeGear must have a Linux strategy.
Borland failed, lost a lot of their loyal user base, and also their
credibility.
Borland made many blunders. But that doesnt help us now :)
Linux didn't, and is now a credible OS that stand the comparison with
Microsoft windows.
Well.. Linux is still not widely accepted although being tuted as being so
for the last decade.
They make different blunders like everybody else. However you are comparing
apples and oranges here.
Compared to MS, Linux has made lots of blunders and MS not one... (despite I
know of several things I personally would have called MS blunders) if you
measure in commercial success.
If only in appropriate time they have looked to something else than the
Job opportunities for .NET
They did.. they made Kylix... And they have estimated that the market wasnt
mature enough at the time... partly because of the many distributions which
at the time, required different libraries, different executable formats etc.
--
best regards
Kim Madsen
kbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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