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In article <Qb0Hx0JfF25J089yn@oslonett.no> mobergru@oslonett.no (Rune Moberg) writes:

>>The point is that Gates loves Basic.  In 1975, he and Paul Allen wrote
>>a version of BASIC that ran on the MITS Altair 8800 Computer.  They

>>So, to the question, "Should I dump Visual Basic", I would so
>>no. It is just to important to MS, and MS is too big to be ignored.

>You can't be fired for choosing MS, right.

>I don't really care much about the "evil" MS debate. I prefer Windows NT
>as my OS and want to use the best development tool available to make
>apps for it. This happens to be Delphi.

>When you choose a product based on the brand and not on it's merits, then
>I would call you a fool. I guess that 85% of the world's population fall
>into that category, but when you are trying to make money using that
>tool, then you should take a closer look.


Most people -do- buy products based on brand and not on merit, and Microsoft 
understands this.  So does Peter Norton.  But I think that by-and-large 
developers do not.  Developers are fond collectors of software and frequently 
own (or "posess") or have recently evaluated copies of nearly everything.  If 
it's better, "cool!"  If it's not, "dog bait."  (Programmers have a peculiar 
but succint vernacular...)  

But the more revenue-producing software you own that was written in a 
particular system, the less likely you are to want to "dump it" for any 
reason.  That will always be the case in life.

Visual Basic won't die, and neither (now) will Delphi, because it would not 
make business sense for a lot of companies to let it do so.  And you won't see 
Microsoft doing any such thing because, hell, they SELL it and make a lot of 
MONEY from it.  :-)

/mr/
"Money wins in the end."