What effect do you foresee C# and VisualStudio.NET having on Borland in general and Delphi in particular?
A lot of Microsoft shops (but not all of them) have switched to .NET, and also some Delphi ones. This is unavoidable. The .NET platform offers a technically sound, and Microsoft had the market lead also when its solutions were well beyond Delphi! But I also see some resistance, and programmers going from VB for Win32 to Delphi as they don’t trust .NET viability for certain projects. I think that as a client-side solution Delphi still has a lot to say. But it has always been weak as a web development solution, and as much as I hate scripting-based web development, I have to say ASP.NET has a few points. Partially adopting IntraWeb has been too little and too late. So getting back to the question, Borland seems to be very focused on .NET, but is pushing the C# language ahead of Delphi. This is upsetting some of the Delphi community. I see the reasons for Borland to do this, but the promise of a Delphi for .NET has been around too much to have only a preview with no IDE in our hands. This
