RE: BORLAND ADA

[michael.hagerty@nitelog.com (Michael Hagerty)]

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On 23 Feb 1995, David M  Tannen posted to All:

DT> Although I will use GNAT for any OS/2 development I might do in the
  > future, I will be using Delphi for my MS-Windows development until an
  > Ada vendor can match the Delphi toolset and at their price.

Ha ha ha ha....  I have not spoken with an Ada vendor who is even aware of
the gap between their products and Delphi, much less the size of that gap...

DT> Hopefully the Ada/Windows vendors get the point that there are folks who
  > will use their tools if they priced them at a reasonable amount.  I do a
  > lot of short term consulting and many of my clients want portable and
  > maintainable solutions; but they are not willing to pay thousands of
  > dollars for tools (and neither am I).  One client is willing to live
  > within the Windows world and has a lot of BP code so Delphi fits the
  > bill.  But they would like to also goto  OS/2 one day, and right now the
  > only reasonable solution I can make is C++ (blech).

I beat up on the Borland people at SD '95 on the issue of OS/2.  BP 7.0 had
a series of patches developed in Germany to make the executables generated
by the compiler work under 16-bit OS/2.  Apparently there is only a header
table difference between 16-bit OS/2 and Windoze 3.1.  Maybe the creative
coder in Germany can come up with an interim solution so we do not have to
step back to C++.

DT> So Mr. Vendor if you have a solution for Windows and OS/2 that provides
  > a visual environment (see Delphi) and a database engine (see Delphi) or
  > a really good set of libraries for a database engine (see TurboPower's
  > B-Tree Filer) for ~$500 per seat send me a note.

I see your inbasket is going to be empty for some time to come..

Regards, Mikey

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