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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>I reckon the problem of too few
people upgrading is two-fold:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>1 - Delphi is too good.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>================</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Done work for a firm still using D5
for 10 years. Still works just fine. Not designed to break or become
insecure after a few years.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>2 - Delphi was not good
enough</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>=======================</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>ie not cheap enough to be a
no-brainer to buy (unlike Turbo pascal early 90's), not cutting edge and
exciting enough to attract the fresh new faces learning programming.
Mainly because Borland took eyes off the developer community. Maybe got
leant on to do .NET stuff by MS too, and big end tools and lost their unique
focus. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Serves them right to disappear into
the bowels of a Cobol company. I remember that MicroFocus was around big
time 25 years ago. Looks like they kept focus at least (no pun
intended).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>I however don't consider Delphi to be
small time or dying. The previous language I programmed in doesn't even
rate in the top 100 on the TIOBE index, so to get into Delphi with huge
resources on the web is big time for me :)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>(The old language incidentally is 30
years old, still produces applications in daily use, solid compiled/interpreted
stuff. Anyone remember the name DIBOL?)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>John</DIV></BODY></HTML>