"Delphi is dead"
I've been hearing that since 1995. And never was this statement supported by arguments other than Microsoft is much bigger than Borland.

The irony is that all those developers choosing the safe option (MS VB) are the ones in the dead end street. They are now forced to rewrite in VB.NET or C# and having to put up with the large and easily decompilable framework. Does all .NET software now qualify as open source?

I guess when you are a monopoly you can easily tell your developers what to do.

Delphi 8 is coming and will support .NET, win32 and Linux.

Delphi is like being in a horse race and you don't care which horse is winning because you're betting on all of them.

Jan Derk