[DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer? - summary

[Paul A Norman]

That last offer from E was not too bad, still a bit too high, and came
at a bad time of year,
- not a good time for the cash flow to make an investment / purchase like that.

Even though it means I slip from eligibility for upgrades
(having managed to convince folk here to get 2005 as our last upgrade
for me to use)
 - it was just not happening for me by Dec 31.

Which makes D's pricing unjustifable at full price for me in practice now
in our operation. The pingas will probaly go on other fields of software needs.

Which is sad as I have really liked working in D all of these years,
and enjoyed the support of the D Developer community.

Jolyon is I believe right on to it with his previous comments about
price breaks,
and a lot of his other anaylsis on this stuff.

If you are being forced out of D do look at that Titanium approach
(http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-desktop/) I mentioned
in an earlier posting
it combines widely useful skill sets so the investment of time and
learning is not wasted.

Paul


2010/1/22 Alan Rose <Alan.Rose at trimble.co.nz>:
> Don't know, do you know how to play the "Last Post"
> Ha ha just kidding, sorry if my last post sounds negative but the trend
> of Delphi use for new development in NZ is worrying.
> I'm not sure what the trend is overseas however.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz
>> [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Leigh Wanstead
>> Sent: Friday, 22 January 2010 11:57 a.m.
>> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
>> Subject: Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer? - summary
>>
>> What can I do?
>>
>> Regards
>> Leigh
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz
>> [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Alan Rose
>> Sent: Friday, 22 January 2010 11:42 a.m.
>> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
>> Subject: Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer? - summary
>>
>> I think a quick play with seek co nz will tell you the story
>> of where Delphi is heading here in NZ.
>> "Delphi" keyed in as a keyword only returned 6 entries (in
>> Auck only) and I doubt most are referring to Delphi as a
>> major language as well.
>> Forget how good Delphi is as a RAD tool I think its sad it
>> been able to slip so far due to poor marketing and pricing
>> decisions by management past and present(oh and the whole
>> drop in quality issue after D7 did not help one bit). Can it
>> make a return to its early glory days in terms of use I don't
>> know, as its now got stiff competition from other tools of
>> which a few are free and attracting the masses (next gen
>> developers etc). But anyway I do have my fingers crossed if
>> that helps.
>>
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