[DUG] Developers not upgrading

[Leigh Wanstead]

Just curious, why must insist on Pascal syntax? I guess that it is quite
easy to pick up a language and write the code in a language in a day if
he/she is a competent/seasoned Delphi programmer ;-)  .

All need is a unit testing frame work in place and most stuff is easy. I
think Visual Studio should be better as they recruited that Delphi designer.
People are most important, right? ;-)

Have a nice day

Regards
Leigh
www.smootharm.com


-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz
[mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]On Behalf Of Gary T. Benner
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 11:12 PM
To: rob at chreos.co.nz
Cc: delphi at delphi.org.nz
Subject: RE: Re: [DUG] Developers not upgrading


[Reply]

Hi all,

I'd like to add another dimension to this conversation ... after talking to
today to a client who told me that he had developers leaving as they saw
their career path with C#, and not "Delphi".

I talked about the migration path with Delphi so they could be doing both
Pascal and C#  etc ... Some lack of product knowledge there ..

Anyway, I wondered just how many people are not upgrading to Delphi ( with
later versions supporting C#  ), because they did not understand the scope
of the product, and the cost savings of retaining existing pascal codebase
while moving ahead with new features in C#.

In the example above, the client was anticipating going to rewrite the whole
codebase ....

Is this another case of Borland's lack of marketing skill?

Let's hope Embarcadero only bought the tech staff and left the marketing
dept behind.

And one last comment, a request actually, how many people have used both
Delphi .NET and Visual Studio - and how do they compare?

cheers

Gary


At 10:31 on 12/05/2008 Robert martin wrote


>To : delphi at delphi.org.nz
>CC :
>From: Robert martin, rob at chreos.co.nz
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>Hi
>
>This is a side track but....
>
>We did upgrade to D2007 and feel somewhat ripped off. D2007 has a
>number of major bugs that we have reported, seen promoted to the
>internal database and never seen a fix for. When D2007 was released the
>auto updating aspect was heavily pushed (at the launch).
>
>a) It has never auto updated (we always have to manually run separate
>app to check for updates).
>b) A number of major bugs don't seem to be being fixed, probably in
>favor of a new release.
>
>Does one upgrade to a new release if it might break parts of their app
>and then they have to wait 2+ yrs for a new version to fix that?
>
>
>--
>Rob Martin
>Software Engineer

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