| Subject | RE: [IBO] IBO.NET? |
|---|---|
| Author | Helen Borrie |
| Post date | 2006-06-10T10:12:28Z |
At 04:18 AM 10/06/2006, you wrote:
Australian Delphi users, speaking at their Symposia in Melbourne and
Adelaide. A show of hands in both venues yielded (apart from the
presenters) a total of five people who were deploying .NET
applications using Delphi and a total of zero (or perhaps one) using
VCL.NET. That was over a total of ~180 Delphi users.
I got a sense of "negativity", especially about Delphi 8, due to the
extreme bugginess of the IDE and the compiler. People seemed to deny
that Delphi 2005 ever happened; but I got the sense of high interest
in Delphi 2006 which, although still very buggy out-of-the-box, is
being speedily patched by DevCo. About 20 of the people there have
bought D2006 and are seriously experimenting with it. Two (out of
the four) presentations were about database apps using .NET and Mono,
using D2006.
There was also a lot of interest in Firebird and IBO as back-ends
and, to some extent (especially, I think, because the Asia-Pacific
Devco guy, Malcolm Groves, was there) in having something good to
interface .NET and InterBase 7+. One of the presentations was
demo'ed using Firebird with a generic interface, possibly DBX.
If DevCo really turns out to be the "rebirth of the Golden Age", as
Malcolm Groves is sure it will be, then it is my opinion that IBO
will be right on top of the "coming thing" if he finds a person with
excellent skills to do the IBO.NET conversion. My impression is that
you cannot ignore Mono. More than that, I would not be totally
astonished to see Mono eclipse .NET within 2 years. Mono is open
source with a "good guy" company behind it (Novell). I think Jason
owes it to himself to be right there when the take-up starts to
happen, even-handedly Mono and .NET.
Helen
>As yet I have not found a developer to port IBO over to .NET. I would stillIt's an interesting question. I've just been on a "mini-tour" of
>like to do that.
>
>How do you like .NET? If possible, I'd like to hear everyone's opinion on
>the importance that IBO be ported to run in the .NET environment.
Australian Delphi users, speaking at their Symposia in Melbourne and
Adelaide. A show of hands in both venues yielded (apart from the
presenters) a total of five people who were deploying .NET
applications using Delphi and a total of zero (or perhaps one) using
VCL.NET. That was over a total of ~180 Delphi users.
I got a sense of "negativity", especially about Delphi 8, due to the
extreme bugginess of the IDE and the compiler. People seemed to deny
that Delphi 2005 ever happened; but I got the sense of high interest
in Delphi 2006 which, although still very buggy out-of-the-box, is
being speedily patched by DevCo. About 20 of the people there have
bought D2006 and are seriously experimenting with it. Two (out of
the four) presentations were about database apps using .NET and Mono,
using D2006.
There was also a lot of interest in Firebird and IBO as back-ends
and, to some extent (especially, I think, because the Asia-Pacific
Devco guy, Malcolm Groves, was there) in having something good to
interface .NET and InterBase 7+. One of the presentations was
demo'ed using Firebird with a generic interface, possibly DBX.
If DevCo really turns out to be the "rebirth of the Golden Age", as
Malcolm Groves is sure it will be, then it is my opinion that IBO
will be right on top of the "coming thing" if he finds a person with
excellent skills to do the IBO.NET conversion. My impression is that
you cannot ignore Mono. More than that, I would not be totally
astonished to see Mono eclipse .NET within 2 years. Mono is open
source with a "good guy" company behind it (Novell). I think Jason
owes it to himself to be right there when the take-up starts to
happen, even-handedly Mono and .NET.
Helen