I think any company that would buy Delphi will agree more with me than with you.
If you're right and companies just can't see that or make it work, can the community do more with Lazarus? I have not played with that so I don't know how good it is.
If you're right and companies just can't see that or make it work, can the community do more with Lazarus? I have not played with that so I don't know how good it is.
We (the community) have tell Borland and sub-sequent owners exactly what to do, and have been never been heared.
To see why it failed, read :
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Borland-fail
In the height of the enterprise transformation, I asked Del Yocam, one of many interim CEOs after Kahn, "Are you saying you want to trade a million loyal $100 customers for a hundred $1 million customers?" Yocam replied without hesitation "Absolutely."
This is it. Management trade a large and healthy ecosystem chasing the rainbows.
This will fail for sure.
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Lazarus is ok, except that suffer from the same disease of most open source projects: Lack of focus and good funding.
Look at every other Delphi competitor from the time period. Microsoft is giving Visual Studio away to casual users and Visual Basic is now VB.Net. Eclipse and IntelliJ come in free versions. There is no longer a market for a million loyal $100 customers for a programming language and ecosystem. There are too many high-quality free languages, compilers and IDEs to make that business model work anymore.
Until JetBrains came on to the scene.
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We know the old model will not apply here. That is clear. That is not what we have tell them.
What we have tell them is that the tool must have a opensource compiler, and free tier and a reasonable pro tier. Xamarin was a good sample.
Also, take in account that the millon loyal customer is not that unreasonable to find:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2418435/how-many-delphi-...