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2006-08-05 12:05:23 PM
delphi283
For under $5K, you could:
A. Get together a mailing list ( buy one cheap or just harvest names from the MS VB(Visual Basic) development groups)
B. Email VB(Visual Basic) lusers
C. Set up a web page on migration
D. Add help entries on Delphi equivalents to common VB(Visual Basic) functions ( I
would outsource this, since your inhouse documentation guys seem to be
on {*word*110}) and provide this as a pdf file and as{*word*178}source.
And to really make it work, spend another $15k to:
E. Encourage an author to write "Delphi Magic for VB(Visual Basic) lusers" and
guarantee her a $5000 minimum payment.
F. Outsource to some talented Indians ( eg: www.iqss.co.in/
)and have them create a modest source code migration tool for the
commonest and simplest cases ( like Sun has done ). Cost $10K
So, for a total cost of $20K, you suddenly have a whole new market and
Delphi is no longer viewed as being passe.
Of course, this will never be done due to management inertia , failure
of imagination and lack of funding. :-(
 

<XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes:
You did forget "hire a person to do the work" and "Stop taking all the
profits from DTG" and "Give a rats {*word*82}about the product".
Fortunately, it won't be long before that all goes away.
--
Nick Hodges
Delphi/C# Product Manager - DevCo
blogs.borland.com/nickhodges
 

<XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
"attitude". By sheer numbers, any small percentage of VB(Visual Basic) users who are
"winners" outnumber most other groups handily.
grip on the issues that have made VB(Visual Basic) both effective and popular. Solving
the wrong problems, regardless of how well planned the solution, won't make
it happen.
Dan
 

Hey RamBum your still talking rubbish I see.
$5k would not cover setting up the meeting
to discuss the requirements for a mailing list.
Then you would need a Lawyer to check it
was all legally invited mailshots and not as
you suggest harvest from newsgroups.
If Devco did operate like you suggest then
maybe Borland should keep tight hold of
its Tools biz
Rita (or maybe Rudy as you say)
<XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes

Especially when you're talking about harvesting e-mail addresses.
M
 

Nick,
times we (as in: Delphi/Borland critics in general, not specifically and
necessarily me) were arguing with you about Borland not "giving a rats
butt" about Delphi, and you pretended that was the most outrageous thing
you ever heard, we were actually right, and you were - well - not
exactly defending the /truth/? Very interesting. Very interesting indeed.
Makes one very encouraged to trust in whatever you are saying and
promising, now.
 

rambam,
come here onto the newsgroups and be called "lusers". I am sure that will
help them to instantly feel at home and comfortable in the Delphi community.
 

have gone down quite a bit since the last time I was home :-)
If I got change out of ?00k for that project, I would be pretty pleased.
Cheers,
Jim Cooper
_____________________________________________
Jim Cooper XXXX@XXXXX.COM
Skype : jim.cooper
Tabdee Ltd www.tabdee.ltd.uk
TurboSync - Connecting Delphi to your Palm
_____________________________________________
 

<XXXX@XXXXX.COM>wrote
mails unless your target market is those segment of VB(Visual Basic) users with low self
esteem and bad spelling.
Anyway, if Delphi couldn't lure VB(Visual Basic) programmers during the transition period
of VB(Visual Basic) while under Borland name, little chance of it after the dust has
settled and everybody has moved on, under a no-name company.
 

marc hoffman writes:
the Delphi community members I know or even met, aren't that way.
--
Holger
Blog: www.flickdotnet.de
 

Hi Holger,
Holger Flick writes:
MfG
twm
 

Hi,
somebody writes:
and even some new projects.
No, I don't understand that either, I wouldn't start anything new with a
dead programming language.
But what I want to say: Maybe it is not too late, but don't wait much longer.
And don't forget to supply a migration tool that at least converts the
forms to Delphi!
MfG
twm
 

In article <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>, <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>
writes:
spam them.
<en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_Pledge>
--
-David
Quis custodiet custodes ipsos?
 

"marc hoffman" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
--
Charles Appel
 

marc hoffman <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes:
You know that he has got to say what he thinks is best for the company.