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

[Matthew Comb]

I think if Delphi had concentrated less on attempting to achieve exciting,
and more on achieving stability and core functionality they would have
done a whole heap better.

How can you be branching out onto mobile spaces, and apple environments if
you can't even do webservices properly....

Matt.

> I think Delphi is a good tool, however the changes between upgrades have
> not
> been very exiting at all. I guess it all depends on what you wanna do with
> Delphi as a whole and if you can justify the cost of upgrading at all.
>
> John
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-
>> bounces at delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Paul A Norman
>> Sent: Friday, 22 January 2010 2:51 p.m.
>> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
>> Subject: Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer? - summary
>>
>> 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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