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Del artículo How to get people talking about your product en el blog de Eric Sink:

An example of great word-of-mouth

Delphi is a programming language and development tool from Borland. It is very highly regarded by its users. People often speak of how it allows developers to be extremely productive and how it generates very efficient standalone Win32 executables.

Borland is currently in the process of spinning out its developer tools into a new company which is informally referred to as "DevCo".

Three weeks ago I published chapter 9 of my Source Control HOWTO, in which I rather whimsically exaggerated by saying that Eclipse and Visual Studio are the only two IDEs left in the world. I figured that this might ruffle the features of anyone who is using one of the many other IDEs that admittedly still exist, but I didn't expect any sort of backlash.

Nick Hodges, product manager for Delphi, responded by asking his readers to go to my blog and post a comment in protest. As a result, 15 raving Delphi fans posted their complaints about Delphi and Borland's products in general.

#ifdef FRIENDLY_TRASH_TALK

Fifteen people? That's like 20% of all the remaining Delphi users on earth, right Nick?

;-)

#endif

¡Saludos al Edgar!

(Como diría el Chefi)