[DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

[Maurice Butler]

Like wise - professional Software developer was self employed for 10 years,
now receiving income by salary from a large international company.
 
I wrote an application using D3, which is still running reliably in a 24x7
manufacturing envionment, weigh and labelling product every 3 seconds, and
stuffing data into an oracle database. The qualification is that it either
works or it doesn't, if it doesn't you don't get any more work. The work
that i put in to the development of the application has ment it has run on
win98,nt 2k, xp without any changes. It is also the bench mark that new
projects are compared to. I now work for the company that i wrote that
application for and have been tasked with upgrading or replacing to include
a lot more functionality.
 
After downgrading to 2005 I redeveloped my application to use a Rockwell PLC
for another client and gave delphi the boot, subsequently all installations
and varations of it have ment my money has gone to rockwell for there
hardware and software.
 
I was looking at upgrading my copy of Delphi - but to be honest I may well
be better off sticking with the Rockwell PLC, not as nice to code but
reliable, occasional  bugs that are fixed without major drama. Espcially if
I run into show stoppers like Delphi 2005
 
Maurice
 
-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Paul A Norman
Sent: Saturday, 19 September 2009 1:09 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero



Dear Richard,
 
" I however, am a professional software developer."
 
I am sure that you are, infact from everything I have heard of you and your
work people should seriously consider looking at you and your consultancy
for any work espeically in areas  of complexity that need special expertise
in advanced programing.
 
What I am trying to address here is the changed busines model that the
Delphi Community is being asked to swallow hook line and sinker.  It is true
as you say that E need to make money. What we and they are needing to look
at is the model by which they wish to do so, realizing that we are their
cash cows!
 
Now what is a "profesional programmer", just one who receives their income
by invoicing directly for progranmming work?
 

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