[DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

[Kyley Harris]

"Really one reason Borland went broke is that they made an IDE that could be
used forever.."
No.. they went broke spending tons of money buying 3rd party tools and
trying to sell them for a fortune to recoup the buy cost.. at the same time
they damn near abandoned the concept of putting out and supporting the Core
Development tools and focused on buggy integration tools with all the extras
they purchased..

They were doing great as a company for Programmers.. Tried to become a
company for lifecycle development and stuffed up.

Still.. with Delphi 2007 I've been quite happy.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:44 PM, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz>wrote:

> I think in general the upgrade policy has been quite generous, as others
> say
> other companies are much worse.
>
> Take Microsoft -  As a Vista user of 1 year I get no reduced price upgrade
> to Windows 7.  Vista is V6.0, Windows 7 internally is ictually Windows 6.1
> and could be argued is not even a new version at all - they are as similar
> as Windows 2000 (V5.0) and Windows XP (V5.1) were.
>
> D2007 versus 7 - have to say the D2007 use of IDE screen is a lot better
> for
> a single screen on a laptop.  And like others I have the D7 help loaded -
> actually the D2007 help is not so bad, just slow at times.
>
> Really one reason Borland went broke is that they made an IDE that could be
> used forever..
>
> John
>
>
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Kyley Harris
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