> How would Embt. compete in such a short time frame

By basing their framework on Qt, they wouldn't be competing, they would 
be repeating one of the mistake of D.Net, by essentially saying that 
"hey, we're not good enough to do it ourselves, so we're using XXX which 
is better than what we could have come up with"


The answer in that case would be the same as with .Net: if there exists 
another framework that is better, why use Embarcadero's wrapper and not 
the real thing? The wrapper will have compromises, limitations, issues 
and add layer of potentially soon obsolete proprietary stuff (a very 
real issue given Kylix, CXXBuilder, D.Net, DWin32-only etc.), while the 
real deal would be moving forward, be well supported, etc.


Just like D.Net turned out as little more than a C#/.Net advertisement 
in favour of MS's dev tools, an Embarcadero relying on QT would be an 
advertisement for using Qt directly.


It's not like .Net or QT are not usable on their own merits, that you 
need a wrapper to take advantage of them...


Eric