> Wow, what faith. I'm touched.
You're right. Till now we had "faith". And in exchange we often had pretty hard times. Many half-baked or broken solutions (localization, midas, the many internet framework attempts, dbExpress before 4, WS support, Indy, CLX, Eco, etc. etc.). You released a whole new remoting framework without ever thinking about *security* and how to plug it into a real enterprise network.
Sorry if we lost "faith", and like St. Thomas, we would like to *see* before *believing*.
BorCodeDero reminds me how Western countries assessed USSR arsenal, looking at what was displayed on Red Square parades and trying to infer which weapons were ready and which were not, which technologies were known and which not, and trying to guess what was cooking under the cover.
Telling your customer now how you are going to implement xplat GUI will allow the to decide if Delphi will be *their* way to go xplat, or if their requirements need a different tool. For you nothing changes - those who won't find your xplat approach appealing will use other tools anyway - you avoid to turn hopeful customers into disgrunted ones later, you'll just allow them to plan their xplat future earlier and with the right knowledge - as it is expected by a technology partner. Instead you often work a
gainst your own customers, once it was SOX, not it is whatever else, and we don't understand why. We're just left unable to plan for our product future, that in turn it's often yours too.