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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I thought that embaco got a bargain on purchase Delphi from
Borland. Will they make Delphi cheaper?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>Steve Peacocke<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 16 September 2009 1:03 p.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Agreed. Borland went away from its core competency to enter
into a market it was ill prepared for. It tried to recoup some of the costs and
losses by upping the cost of the core developer's tool (Delphi) until it cost
the value greater than the cost of a good second hand car.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>It's total focus away from the developer and it's huge cost
of delphi meant that most NZ companies went away from Delphi to another tool
that offered more, easier and cheaper upgrades. Boreland effectively killed the
cash-cow through over-excessive milking.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Thankfully they are looking
good to recover slightly, although regaining the customer base they had
previously is probably now out of their range.<br clear=all>
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Steve Peacocke<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Kyley Harris <<a
href="mailto:Kyley@harrissoftware.com">Kyley@harrissoftware.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>"Really one reason Borland went broke is that they made
an IDE that could be<br>
used forever.."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>No.. they went broke spending tons of money buying 3rd party
tools and trying to sell them for a fortune to recoup the buy cost.. at the
same time they damn near abandoned the concept of putting out and supporting
the Core Development tools and focused on buggy integration tools with all the
extras they purchased..<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>They were doing great as a company for Programmers.. Tried
to become a company for lifecycle development and stuffed up.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Still.. with Delphi 2007 I've been quite happy.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:44 PM, John Bird <<a
href="mailto:johnkbird@paradise.net.nz" target="_blank">johnkbird@paradise.net.nz</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I think in general the upgrade policy has been quite
generous, as others say<br>
other companies are much worse.<br>
<br>
Take Microsoft - As a Vista user of 1 year I get no reduced price upgrade<br>
to Windows 7. Vista is V6.0, Windows 7 internally is ictually Windows 6.1<br>
and could be argued is not even a new version at all - they are as similar<br>
as Windows 2000 (V5.0) and Windows XP (V5.1) were.<br>
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D2007 versus 7 - have to say the D2007 use of IDE screen is a lot better for<br>
a single screen on a laptop. And like others I have the D7 help loaded -<br>
actually the D2007 help is not so bad, just slow at times.<br>
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Really one reason Borland went broke is that they made an IDE that could be<br>
used forever..<br>
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John<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>
Kyley Harris<br>
Harris Software<br>
+64-21-671-821<o:p></o:p></p>
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