[DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

[Jolyon Smith]

Many companies offer a sliding scale of upgrade incentives.  i.e. those
upgrading from the most recent version get the cheapest deal, those
upgrading from 2 or 3 previous versions a slightly worse deal and anyone
upgrading from an even older version an even slightly worse deal still.

But it's a rare company indeed that says.... "you may be a customer but
you're such an out of date customer that we really don't consider you a
current customer at all and you're gonna have to start over if you want to
carry on using our products".


I for one find this thoroughly disheartening.



-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Bevan Edwards
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 04:36
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

Hi,

On the one hand, as others have pointed out, I can sympathise that it's 
not always possible for people to upgrade to the latest version of these 
applications - I tend to upgrade only every second version myself anyway ;)

However, it seems to me like Embarcadero are willing to allow upgrades 
from the last three versions (2006, 2007, and 2009, if I'm not 
mistaken), which is more than some companies allow you to do!

Perhaps it would be worth asking them if they would consider a 
diminishing discount for upgrading from older systems - so if you're not 
shelling out the cash for new versions all the time, you can still get 
some advantage over new purchasers by having invested in their products 
in the past?

Regards,

Bevan


Richard Vowles wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> As those who are very interested Delphi, I figured discussing this 
> here before we send out an EDM around it (along with the upcoming 
> launch) would be a good idea.
>
> As of the last day of this year, people won't be able to upgrade from 
> versions earlier than and including Delphi 2005. You will have to 
> purchase new licenses if you want to upgrade.
>
> This is quite a significant change in policy. Given the Embarcadero 
> people are coming out, it is worthwhile to have this discussion now so 
> if you want to talk to them in person, you will be able to.
>
> Richard
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