[mmgutz]

Nothing beats Delphi for GUIs. Unfortunately, there were more VB4/VB5 jobs and I had to switch :(

Borland was in trouble long before Kylix and .NET. They wanted to be everything: enterprise, Quattro, dBase, Sidekick ... Lack of direction killed Borland.

[sedatk]

> Borland was in trouble long before Kylix and .NET.

That’s true. Maybe I should have said “final nail in the coffin”.

[boznz]

I agree, but a lot of it was caused by the C# hype, and the FUD that Delphi was dead or dying, that got dragged up by every IT Manager, IT expert, forum, user group, etc I worked with at the time.

Unfortunately Delphi then tried to transition to dot net itself (remember Delphi 8.0!) and became a pile of crap for the next couple of versions. It got better, but by then it was too late and too steep a climb to attract new developers

I have one more big journey in Pascal to take, that is to re-write my Delphi winemaking system as open source when I retire, but at US$1350 for the Delphi professional license, I will be writing it in Lazarus.