[DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

[John Bird]

I reckon the problem of too few people upgrading is two-fold:

1 - Delphi is too good.
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Done work for a firm still using D5 for 10 years.  Still works just fine.  Not designed to break or become insecure after a few years.

2 - Delphi was not good enough
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ie not cheap enough to be a no-brainer to buy (unlike Turbo pascal early 90's), not cutting edge and exciting enough to attract the fresh new faces learning programming.  Mainly because Borland took eyes off the developer community.  Maybe got leant on to do .NET stuff by MS too, and big end tools and lost their unique focus.  

Serves them right to disappear into the bowels of a Cobol company.  I remember that MicroFocus was around big time 25 years ago.  Looks like they kept focus at least (no pun intended).

I however don't consider Delphi to be small time or dying.  The previous language I programmed in doesn't even rate in the top 100 on the TIOBE index, so to get into Delphi with huge resources on the web is big time for me  :)

(The old language incidentally is 30 years old, still produces applications in daily use, solid compiled/interpreted stuff.  Anyone remember the name DIBOL?)

John
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