Jeff,

>>Keep in mind that MS marteting mechanism is very strong...
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>There used to be a difference between marketing and propaganda. While there still is a difference in many industries, propaganda has replaced marketing in most of the high-tech industries. The primary function of propaganda is to provide misinformation to decision makers for the purpose of maximizing revenue - it's Capitalism that has been tweaked.


It seems that no-one is winning except microsoft itself. Software Development is not helped, the customers are not helped, We are not helped, etc..

Imagine how the world could have looked like *IF* OS/2 had won the battle against Windows 95, Delphi was THE choice to make general purpose apps, Visual FoxPro (with or without SQL Server) was fairly marketed as a solution for more advanced database solutions than MS access.

Walter,