Re: Rich Client Applications and Codegear's Strategy

"The problem is that
CodeGear needs a Delphi strategy that can grow the user base not merely
(hope to) sustain it."

Agree, and by now it seems to be clear that their odds on this are better in
the native (i.e. non .net) side of Delphi. Even more so now that ECO, maybe
the biggest Delphi advantage in the .net arena, is going to be available for
VS.

Regards,
Marco


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