>I've said for years that Microsoft is a marketing company. However, in this case, I don't have it wrong. Microsoft created .NET and is the company that continues to improve it. There could be the possiblity that the CLR will introduce new features that are taken advantage of in MS languages, while the competition has to wait one rev.

No they don't. Borland is just building an IDE (At least talking about C# Builder). It uses the .Net framework and it's compilers to create apps... so, as soon as .Net 2.0 comes out, you will be able to build 2.0 apps with Borland C# builder. The tool actually looks pretty cool. I like that fact that it is two way tool with object model/code and your code changes are automatically reflected in the language.

What Borland also USED to do, which they didn't seem to do with the product is sell it for LESS than MS... C# builder at the level you would want is about $1500, more than MSDN Enterprise costs.

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