[DUG] Delphi roadmap

[Alister Christie]

I think Borcoderoprise would be closer
Borland, CodeGear, Embarcadero and the ever favorable Inprise

Anyone else see further improvements?

Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
http://www.salespartner.co.nz
PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
Wellington


On 10/01/2011 10:34 a.m., Jolyon Smith wrote:
>
> MS has tools for OS/X ?!?  ;)
>
> The problem I see with their multi-platform direction is that the 
> platforms they are targeting are all well served by completely free 
> tools.  Unless Embarcadero sort out their thinking w.r.t. low cost, 
> entry level SKU's for their software development products and shake 
> off their addiction to/obsession with enterprise (small "e") type 
> developers/customers, they simply cannot compete in those spaces.
>
> Read "Will not" compete, rather than "cannot"  - they could be 
> competitive if they modify their thinking around pricing, but my guess 
> is that they will choose not to do that, and instead expect/hope those 
> markets will "mature" around their ticket price, because the mindset 
> at Borcaderoprise is that "real, grown up software developers pay 
> handsomely for their tools -- everyone else is just tinkering".
>
> *From:*delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz 
> [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] *On Behalf Of *Alister Christie
> *Sent:* Monday, 10 January 2011 10:18
> *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Delphi roadmap
>
> I don't care much for Win64 or OS/X - but I think they are required to 
> make Delphi a serious competitor to MS tools.  Would like mobile 
> platforms - Android or iOS - both of which are ARM based.
>
> NVidia already have plenty experience 
> <http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra.html> with the ARM platform.
>
> Alister Christie
> Computers for People
> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
> http://www.salespartner.co.nz
> PO Box 13085
> Johnsonville
> Wellington
>
>
> On 8/01/2011 10:22 a.m., Malcolm Groves wrote:
>
> Personally, I'd rather we get Win64, MacOSX, and maybe a mobile platform out the door before we look at supporting something that may not even have a market.
>   
> Cheers
> Malcolm
>   
> Malcolm Groves
> Senior Director, Asia Pacific and Japan
> Embarcadero Technologies
> http://www.embarcadero.com
>   
> Phone: +61 416 264 204
> Skype: malcolmgroves
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>   
> On 08/01/2011, at 7:44 AM, "Jan Bakuwel"<jan.bakuwel at omiha.com>  <mailto:jan.bakuwel at omiha.com>  wrote:
>   
>
>     Hi,
>
>       
>
>     We debated what we'd like to see in future version of Delphi from time
>
>     to time. It seems that the recent announcement of NVidia and Microsoft
>
>     ("Project Denver") as outlined here for example:
>
>       
>
>     http://www.fiercecio.com/techwatch/story/nvidia-guns-desktop-server-market/2011-01-07
>
>       
>
>     would indicate that Embarcadero has no choice but to adopt the Delphi
>
>     compiler for different target architectures (at least to include ARM).
>
>       
>
>     Thoughts?
>
>       
>
>     Jan
>
>       
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