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Borland C++Builder Revolt
florescent_beige writes "Developers using Borland's C++Builder RAD tool are in revolt. Borland apparently obsoleted this product one year ago. However, the promised migration path (to be described in a now infamous open letter) never materialized.
In a last-ditch effort to convince Borland to support them, users have put together a letter justifying (and begging) for continued support."
From dictionary.com:
obsolete
\Ob"so*lete\, v. i. To become obsolete; to go out of use. [R.] --Fitzed. Hall.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
This is the Constitution.This is the Constitution under the Bush administration. Any questions?
It's Anders Hejlsberg.
Training monkeys for world domination since 1439
Let's clear up some of the FUD in your post, Mike.
/may/ kill off the VCL side of C++Builder. They have set Dec 15 as the deadline to announce whether C++Builder will become part of the BDS/Galileo IDE or not. If they miss that deadline, then we know the answer. But it is FUD to say that it has been killed.
.Net, and to say that they have is FUD. Borland very much wants to do this, but MS is dragging their feet. It's a limitation in Delphi, yes, but to portray it as broken promises is vicious FUD.
Borland has not killed off Kylix. That is FUD. Kylix is "on hold" this year, but they did announce some open source initiatives at this years Borland Conference. Kylix isn't thriving at Borland, but it's FUD to say that it's been killed.
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CodeWright has been killed, yes, and incorporated into Galileo and Primetime IDE's.
Borland never made any promises about CF support in Delphi for
Delphi works fine on XP systems with SP2. What are you on about here?
Man, clearly all that baloney up took some work.