Delphi refocussing on .Net - good or bad?

Hi,

I saw that Marco Cantu posted a quote from Michael Swindell on July 3. It's intersting to see an indication that they will be focusing more on cutting edge than compatibility. What do you people think about it?

Personally I'm (finally ;-)) starting to think that .Net is not just a new "version" of Win32. It's a completely new platform, no more like Win32 than for example Java. So Delphi for .Net should probably be considered a completely separate product, like JBuilder or Delphi for PHP, rather than just a new version of Delphi for Win32.

Migrating a project from Win32 to .Net will probably require a rewrite or at least major refactoring, no matter how "compatible" Delphi for ..Net is. So, in that respect, compatibility is probably rather unimportant, compared with keeping up with the .Net versions and other emerging .Net technologies.

Comments, anyone?

Kjell
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