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- Subject: Re: Will Delphi 2.0 go SUPERNOVA in 1996?
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 15:41:01 -0700
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- In article <311A2D98.4D87@harbornet.com> GIJoe <th_assoc@harbornet.com> writes:
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- >I dnTim Shea wrote:
- >> 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.
-
- >Yet at home, these same managers are getting used to Win95 on their
- >machines. IDC quotes a 30% market share 12/95 for the first
- >three months Win95 was out...and projects a share of 60+% by end 1996.
- >That doesn't even include NT. Even shareware is moving
- >into 32bit(look at jumbo and shareware.com). I believe MS's aggressive
- >NT selling campaign is going to allow a lot of purchase orders to
- >be raised this summer for 32bit VB apps.
-
-
- Very soon after Win95 came out, there was a lot of Internet traffic generated
- as people ran into problem after problem, and I think that the majority of
- people are quite reasonably "waiting." This is Win95 "Release 1.0" and we all
- know what that means.
-
- Nor are we particularly in a hurry. The nice thing about Delphi is that both
- a 16-bit and a 32-bit product are in the same box at the same price, so that
- as developers and users gradually move to 32-bit environments, having stuck
- their own toothpicks into the pie and observed that now it's coming out clean,
- Delphi remains a good tool to use.
-
- Will Delphi "go supernova" or whatever-you-said? Sure. It already has.
- Great tools that help people make money and solve problems have a way of doing
- that -- and each one of us who may be "advocates" in a particular newsgroup
- can acknowledge that our own "personal favorite" product has had its own day
- in the sun. This is simply Delphi's moment.
-
- /mr/
-
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