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- From: dsb@plaza.ds.adp.com (David S. Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Will Delphi 2.0 go SUPERNOVA in 1996?
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 96 18:32:15 GMT
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- In article <4f80fu$k86@thales.nmia.com>, csi@citysoft.com (Tim Shea) wrote:
- >vincer@iaccess.za (Vince Risi) wrote:
- >
- >>As Delphi 1.0 was hot in 1995, will Delphi 2.0 blow the top off 1996?
- >
- >Too many client are using 16 bit windows. I'm not going to move to
- >2.0 until there is a lot more 95 out there in government & corporate
- >situations, or a client requests it for some reason.
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- While government & corporate do seem to be brushing off Win95 right now, let
- us not forget that Delphi 2.0 writes for NT just as handily as 95. (In
- fact, if you don't use any of the NT specific APIs, the same EXE will work
- on both.) NT, on the other hand is selling like hot-cakes in those markets...
-
- >Also I expect the competition to emerge in mid-96 (compiled VB?) which
- >should steal some of the limelight.
-
- Perhaps, but by the time that happens, Delphi will have such a head start that
- any competition will have a hard time catching up.
-
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