http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/12/embarcadero_codegear_tools_future/

The reason that it's important to know history, is so that we don't make the same mistakes over again.

I must admit that as a long time Windows user, I have believed in the capabilities of Windows since the debut of Windows NT 3.1. Whilst my peers at the time believed otherwise, I saw Windows NT as the future OS of choice for the desktop.

I also believe that Delphi is the most under-rated development environment ever created. While it's not my place to point fingers, I've dealt with companies where the features present in the latest .NET environment are compared with and prefered over features in the Delphi 5 environments that they are still using. The computer industry has undergone a decade of advancement since the release of Delphi 5!

As we all know, marketing is one of the most important ingredients when selling a product.

In concIusion, whilst I think that .NET and C# have some cool features, I feel that it's a sad day when the OS, the runtime and the software tools are all made the same company. The road can only lead to where they want it to lead.Sometimes this can be a good thing. It would appear such that the days of the native code compiler, at least on Windows, are numbered and just as Windows 95 won the OS desktop war over IBM's OS/2, I think that .NET will be the winner because Microsoft will make sure that it will be.

I wonder where this will lead technologies like NVIDIA CUDA?

My two cents worth,
Nino

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