> In this new light, am I crazy for ordering a "small team pack" of D2006 > at this time? Will D2006 become an dead, un-paranted product, > incompatible with the new product-line? I'm pretty sure Borland would > not answer those questions...
I imagine the Borland IDE will be the business side of their language division and the Turbo products designed for the newbie and home hobbyist. I don't think Delphi 2006 or otherwise is doomed. With Turbo, I think the planners finally figured out that the Borland tools have probably made about as much an inroad into the enterprise as they are going to. They also figured out that language acceptance is often bottom up rather than top down. People use it at home and bring it into the office is better for Borland than selling at the top and trickling down the skillset. Works for MS, but they have a monster marketing machine and lots of people who like the one shop one vendor old IBM mentality. I still maintain they need to port to the Mac especially now that Mac is gaining traction on the desktop again. This is an area they could dominate and a fairly large selling feature since MS will likely never migrate a language over. Apple fans are very similar to Delphi fans and I think it would be a fairly good mix. Delphi had a huge potential at one time and it made me ill to see how Borland squandered it. At least with the latest management the enterprise blinders have come off and some exciting news is headed our way. __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
