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Delphi’s Alive, Kicking and NOT Moving To Visual Studio
So Who Started This Rumour In The First Place?

4 December 2006

by Huw Collingbourne

The Mystery deepens. A couple of days ago, I reported a story from the French technology journal, Le Monde Informatique, in which it was stated that plans were afoot to abandon the traditional Delphi IDE (formerly known as the Borland Developer Studio) and switch Delphi over to Microsoft’s Visual Studio.

"Cette politique signe également l’arrêt de Delphi en tant qu’IDE autonome. Les prochaines versions viendront se greffer sur Visual Studio, comme un nouveau langage de la plate-forme .NET."

This story was rapidly and vociferously denied by Code Gear and, following some comments posted on the French site, the editor of Le Monde Informatique made a small adjustment to the story, stating, that instead of abandoning the Delphi IDE, Code Gear would continue with the current IDE as a standalone product but future versions would use a Visual Studio runtime (whatever that means).

"Cette politique signe également l’abandon du moteur de l’IDE de Delphi. Comme cela l’avait déjà été annoncé, les prochaines versions utiliseront Visual Studio comme socle technique. Delphi continuera d’être commercialisé en tant que produit autonome mais pourrait donc inclure un runtime de Visual Studio."

However, the revised article goes on to point out the advantages that Visual Studio will bring to Delphi. So the confusion over the matter could hardly be said to have been dispelled.

The revised article can be read (in French) on Le Monde Informatique. A categorical refutation by the Delphi Product Manager, Nick Hodges, has been posted among the comments to my story here on Bitwise.