The thing that bothers me is the prices they ask for their products nowadays (at least since they change from Borland to Inprise to Borland).
The reason is simple: in the beginning (the original) Borland was a small company with highly enthousiastic programmers, most of them didn't even have an IT-like degree, but were just simple *nerds* (gosh I hate that word!) that just wanted to make a good product, nothing more. Because of the computer-business BOOM, they also wanted a piece of the "action" (like other rags-to-riches companies like Microsoft) and "big" people with masters-degrees in economics were hired to make the business more profitable. Result: deadlines, sales, high salaries, shareholders, you name it... All the things you don't want if you want quality. So one day, some hot-shot director decided that, in order to be taken seriously, a name-change should be made, because "Borland" still had the name of being a "programmers-club" instead of a large corporation. Well, obviously, that didn't pay off, so they changed it back to Borland, but only the name... not the quality (you're not going to fire yourself as a managing director, are you?). The big problem is that, as large companies always want, they only want to focus on the market where the real money is, ie. other big companies. They don't care about little developers anymore (like in the past). Sure, you're able to get yourself a "Personal" edition, with everything stripped out and only under very strict conditions (read deployment.txt). As a hobby-programmer, I can't afford those prices they ask for their products, so I'm still "happy" with my Delphi 3 Pro and my second hand Delphi 6 Enterprise. I don't care about .NET: I hate system-bloating and prefer pure programming so I don't need Delphi 8/2005, but please give me updates for my (older) Delphi-versions. I won't go on any further, because I have a lot more things I don't like, but I still love Delphi and want to continue using it, but for how long? Greetz, Peter. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walter Prins > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [delphi-en] Delphi Q&A - Is Borland committed to Delphi? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Hruska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Back when Borland merged with Inprise (eons ago), I got the distinct > > feeling that something internally was going bad with the > company. The > > Umm, I think they renamed themselves - there was no merger > that I'm aware > of... The whole rename thing didn't work out well, so they eventually > renamed themselves back. > > > company hasn't been the same since. It isn't so much that Borland > > doesn't update their software - it has to do more with the > _quality_ of > > the updates. The changes rarely address the serious issues > that every > > serious user is _constantly_ hammering on about (bugs still > exist in the > > latest Delphi that existed back in version 3). When they > are addressed, > > they are treated as "features" and a new version than a > patch. Some of > > you are probably wondering why I am on this list. I'm not > anti-Borland, > > I'm just not as big a fan as I used to be because I saw my favorite > > company slowly lose its ability to make a solid piece of software. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/i7folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
