[DUG] XE Upgrade

[David Brennan]

"At the very least this time around they should be offering the "unpadded"
versions for significantly less than the normal price of an upgrade."

 

That is an interesting idea which I agree would be nice. I suspect
Embarcadero would rather just keep quiet and soldier on because any
concession like that involves acknowledging that this release is light on
real innovation, while also setting a precedent that people can be allowed
to buy just part of a new releases features.

 

Frankly none of this surprises me, it always seemed to me that doing cross
compilation properly was a multi-year exercise and I've said that from the
start. The most worrying thing is that they apparently thought they could do
it in a year... at least they were willing to admit (internally) they were
wrong and adjust accordingly, even if that leaves many of us in the lurch.

 

Personally we aren't really affected much, we've only just moved to Delphi
2007 and from our point of view Delphi 2011 XE with its extra bug fixes is
looking pretty attractive as a next version to jump to... but only if we
decide to leap the Unicode chasm which isn't currently on the cards.

 

Cheers,

David.

 

 

From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Jolyon Smith
Sent: Tuesday, 31 August 2010 3:13 p.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: Re: [DUG] XE Upgrade

 

We were told last year that Delphi 2010 was a "productivity and quality
improvement release" while we were dangled the carrots of Win64 and the
cross-platform this time around.

 

Now Delphi XE is being sold as ANOTHER productivity and quality improvement
release.  Just how bad are they prepared to admit Delphi was !?  What
message does this send to anyone considering Delphi ?  When a plumber leaves
a home full of leaks, he generally doesn't advertise his services by drawing
attention to the fact that he's good at fixing the leaks he leaves behind
when he first comes to do a job for you.

 

(not that getting bugs fixed isn't A Good ThingT, I just question the idea
that it's a selling point to be quite so proud of and loudly trumpeted)

 

I might be more impressed if they had actually fixed some of the bugs I
myself reported that have languished in QC for 8+ years (and had not
introduced new ones related to those in the meantime). 

 

 

At the very least this time around they should be offering the "unpadded"
versions for significantly less than the normal price of an upgrade.

 

i.e. If you want the bug fixes but don't need/want FinalBuilder and all the
other stuffing that they are cramming in the box in a desperate attempt to
justify the same-ol'-same-ol' price tag, then you should have the option of
getting quality in the product you have already paid for at a reasonable
price, and not be forced to pay through the nose for things you don't want
or need to get what you should be entitled to as a matter of course.

 

But they can't do that without annoying the people who stumped up for SA
(many of whom will already be cheesed off if they did so on the strength of
previous indications from the "roadmap").

 

</rant>

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