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 PGP Key available on popular servers 1024 Fingerprint = 56 12 CF A9 0E 53 A4 C4 49 F2 AF E7 F1 D3 47 5F 2047 Fingerprint = A2 96 BD 54 AD C2 76 C2 C7 B0 F1 C7 E2 4E 1E 80 --- � MR/2 2.2 � Don't use force; use a bigger hammer.