[DUG] More Delphi news...

[Matthew Comb]

I have to say, after 10 years of Delphi programming, its a bummer to think
that Delphi would drop away.

I would love to think that once all this DevCo stuff is behind them, they
could kick on, however Im currently working for a large scale company that
are looking to migrate from Delphi to C# and so have been learning C# on
the side. I'm sad to say but its just miles ahead. instantly debugable
webservices, instant integration with SQL Server and instant creation of
underlying schemas.

Within 4 hours, I had a Client Server setup with a database backend.
Server was WebService based, communication was in xml.

It has Anders written all over it, and everything we like that Delphi had
is still there, its just been completed.

Interested to know what other people say about C#

the question is: If you were the CEO of a company that developed a
product, and saw your competitors release a product that was so far ahead
of anything that you had in the pipeline, what would you do ? My answer
would be refocus. Which appears to be what Borland has done.

Thoughts?