New ownership = No excuse - Delphi

>> At this point even I am hoping they kill off their C++ product.
>

I love C++ builder but I am also a realist. There is no way Codegear
can keep both products going with their limited budget and with the
enormous tasks ahead of them to keep competitive.

Mike Margerum wrote:
>>> At this point even I am hoping they kill off their C++ product.
>>
>
> I love C++ builder but I am also a realist. There is no way Codegear
> can keep both products going with their limited budget and with the
> enormous tasks ahead of them to keep competitive.



Their big mistake was the entire CBX fiasco. Other than that (and
speaking as primarily a C++ Builder user), they've managed to keep the
product going rather well...

David Erbas-White

Mike Margerum wrote:

> > > At this point even I am hoping they kill off their C++ product.
> >
>
> I love C++ builder but I am also a realist. There is no way Codegear
> can keep both products going with their limited budget

I think that is not true.

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"I'll sleep when I'm dead." -- Warren Zevon

David Erbas-White wrote:

> Their big mistake was the entire CBX fiasco. Other than that (and
> speaking as primarily a C++ Builder user), they've managed to keep
> the product going rather well...

.... despite a lot of "things" working against the C++ team, before the
decision was made to reanimate C++Builder.
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time reading it." -- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)

This is the most stupid idea I have seen in this group for ages.


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>
> At this point even I am hoping they kill off their C++ product. With
> unicode, 64 bit (future) and generics support, i'd be willing to use
> object pascal. They need to jettison C++ and .net support so they can
> focus their limited resources on a native multi platform solution. That
> is their only chance AFAICT

why? its a delphi group. lol
PavelS wrote:
> This is the most stupid idea I have seen in this group for ages.
>
>
> "Mike Margerum" <junk@mail.com> píse v diskusním príspevku
> news:4829a38a$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>> At this point even I am hoping they kill off their C++ product. With
>> unicode, 64 bit (future) and generics support, i'd be willing to use
>> object pascal. They need to jettison C++ and .net support so they can
>> focus their limited resources on a native multi platform solution. That
>> is their only chance AFAICT
>
>

Mike Margerum wrote:

> why? its a delphi group. lol

That doesn't change the idea, though.

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Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] http://www.teamb.com

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Mike Margerum wrote:

> At this point even I am hoping they kill off their C++ product.

Not going to happen.

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Nick Hodges
Delphi Product Manager - CodeGear
http://blogs.codegear.com/nickhodges

Mike Margerum wrote:

> There is no way Codegear can keep both products going with their
> limited budget and with the enormous tasks ahead of them to keep
> competitive.

Do you have some insight into this that we don't? If you do, I and the
rest of the management team would love to know about it, seeing as we
have a completely different viewpoint. I wonder where our two ****yses
differ?

--
Nick Hodges
Delphi Product Manager - CodeGear
http://blogs.codegear.com/nickhodges