<div>If, as has long been the underlying reality, some one realsises that the IDE is of more interest to developers than CEOs, why doesn't some one from the upper shelves come and really start talking to and listening to the real customer base then?
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<div>Ages ago I wrote in here that they should truly recruit for shareholding amongst developers - shareholding related to the IDE(s).</div>
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<div>If the <u>one</u>, or now we are told <u>three<font color="#990000">*</font></u>, million developers are really out there, and represent a genuine commercial investment for someone to come in on, then such developers must be a potential financial resource for investment themselves - even at only an average modest shareholding - it would be big money for Borland or who ever.
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<div>That is IF the IDE is a truly investable commodity.</div>
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<div>If Borland doesn't think that the Developers are worth really <u>properly</u> trying to recruit for investment, then any other investors should review what they are being told about the developer base of the IDE(s) and the developers' commitment to it.
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<div>I would have been all in even only two years ago, but no one has genuinely and <u>energetically</u> tried to recruit us, and now I don't know what is happening - the signals in the press releases and interviews are mixed and disturbing.
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<div>Might a <strong>real</strong> developer based investment strategy be a useful bridge between current investment models, and the trends in development circles that Brown is trying to explore?</div>
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<div>Paul A Norman<br> </div>
<div><font color="#660000">*</font> "a fervent belief the new company can monetize its <strong>installed base</strong> of <font color="#990000">three million developers</font>."</div>
<div>from: <a href="http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/04/26/brown_borland_tools/">http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/04/26/brown_borland_tools/</a></div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 27/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kyley Harris</b> <<a href="mailto:kyley@harrissoftware.com">kyley@harrissoftware.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Interesting. I've been a .net avoider for simple reasons. It wont add<br>any business value to my current projects for the cost of change over.
<br>Which is not to say that I may not look at it in the future.<br><br>Has anyone had a play with CHROME as a pure .net pascal language?<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz">
delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz">delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz</a>]<br>On Behalf Of Matthew Comb<br>Sent: Thursday, 27 April 2006 3:43 p.m.<br>To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
<br>Subject: Re: [DUG] More Delphi news...<br><br>I have to say, after 10 years of Delphi programming, its a bummer to<br>think<br>that Delphi would drop away.<br><br>I would love to think that once all this DevCo stuff is behind them,
<br>they<br>could kick on, however Im currently working for a large scale company<br>that<br>are looking to migrate from Delphi to C# and so have been learning C# on<br>the side. I'm sad to say but its just miles ahead. instantly debugable
<br>webservices, instant integration with SQL Server and instant creation of<br>underlying schemas.<br><br>Within 4 hours, I had a Client Server setup with a database backend.<br>Server was WebService based, communication was in xml.
<br><br>It has Anders written all over it, and everything we like that Delphi<br>had<br>is still there, its just been completed.<br><br>Interested to know what other people say about C#<br><br>the question is: If you were the CEO of a company that developed a
<br>product, and saw your competitors release a product that was so far<br>ahead<br>of anything that you had in the pipeline, what would you do ? My answer<br>would be refocus. Which appears to be what Borland has done.<br>
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