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Technology Stocks : INPR - Inprise to Borland (BORL)
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To: Kiriakos Georgiou who wrote (4366)2/8/2000 1:34:00 AM
From: Kashish King  Read Replies (4) of 5102
 
Delphi developed a large following that persists. It's the same with any language regardless of how badly formed they are: people use what they know. With good environments like Delphi they tend to stick around indefinitely, even when we have superior options all around. C++ continues to dominate Delphi and Java crushed Delphi easily, after spotting it at least a three-year headstart. There are two books on Delphi at a popular technical bookstore I frequent; there are many walls of shelves of Java technology. A lot of developers on this thread offer ridiculous defenses based on nothing more than ignorance and hope that you are just as vacant as they are to win their arguments -- that's why I rarely post here since you just get meaningless noise from a few regulars.

Will developers substitute proprietary object-pascal syntax for far more open syntax of Java? They haven't and won't. A developer can choose to compile native code without losing the portability of the class files -- that just went right over the head of some of the so-called developers on this thread. When Java says "rich" API they mean it and there's almost nothing that hasn't been covered from JDBC to OpenGL style 3D development and so on. Java once stuttered on the client but that's changing and clearly server-side Java in e-commerce has hit the big-time.

In short: forget Delphi, it's just an annoyance that does not provide any advantage over Java or C++ for that matter. It's just a proprietary attempt at building a better Visual Basic -- Delphi lost that battle long ago.

Now, Red Hat probably should have bought Inprise but that was not something I was wondering about. As for Corel being smarter, they have never demonstrated any such attribute. I don't think this is a good move for CORL because they have not shown competence in developing their own products in a retail setting (they buy old products rather than build new products) and they have no expertise in development tools.

What Corel has purchased for a bone-crushing sum of money is another washed-up, stagnant software product: Delphi. The C++ and Java products face stiff competition including freeware. Revenues are dismal and margins will likely keep falling. Neither Sun nor Oracle nor Rational nor a host of other possible suitors liked what they saw in Inprise. Only Corel, with a track record of botched development efforts, saw any real value here.
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