Re: Delphi to Visual Studio Conversion Project

Joanna Carter [TeamB] wrote:

Now, I have a story of my present client. We are actually in the middle of a
complete rewrite of a Delphi app in C#.

The previous post too was sponsored by Microsoft Visual Studio...


Joking aside. You are not the only TeamBer doing this. In many posts you
promote C# or Visual Studio. Why - as a TeamB member - would you do that?

In my humble opinion it hurts CodeGear in a terrible way. You obviously are
mainly working with CodeGear's biggest competitor and often mentioning its
advantages or telling reasons why you moved projects from Delphi to C#.

Most here will disagree with your preference for .NET. If I would not think
that native Delphi is the still king for creating mean and lean applications I
would not hang around here. The problem is that those in doubt if Delphi is the
best choice for them may read your (because of the TeamB title) authoritative
MS promotion and another sale is lost. I am hoping that CodeGear will stay
alive until they bring us Unicode and win64 support and your posts are not
helping.

Would it not be better to be enthusiastic about MS products in MS newsgroups
instead? Or drop the TeamB title if you still want to persist promoting
CodeGear's competitors?

There are more people promoting CodeGear's competition like Free Pascal, but
those post are not coming from TeamB members.

This is no criticism, just curiosity. And maybe I am the only one here
wondering why you (and some other TeamBers) are doing this.

Jan Derk
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