I must admit I strongly dislike (not quite hate!) using Delphi 3 after using
Delphi 4.
I think the IDE stuff in Delphi 4 was worth the upgrade alone... though you
could get similar functionality by using add on products like Class
Explorer, etc...
The client-server (or Enterprise) upgrade price is steep!! Though, I guess
if you are doing Enterprise development it would be worth the price.
This time round (for the mean time anyway) we have gone for D5 Prof with the
add on products, if we get into WEB development or need any of the other
Enterprise stuff we will then look at purchasing the Enterprise addition.
I think Borland (or Inprise) listened to the moans of their clients last
time and provided the add on extras to the professional version of D5 which
were not available last time.
That's my $0.02 worth...
Regards
C Fraser
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Phil Scadden
Sent: Thursday, 16 September 1999 8:52 am
To: Multiple recipients of list DELphi
Subject: Re: [DUG]: ANN: Delphi 5 shipping in NZ
> Just someone mentoned adjusted prices and I wondered if perhaps the
> somewhat
> unrealistic 3.5K Upgrade price for some thing that apperntly has little
new
> to offer, but supposedly addresses the bugs in D4. Considering that D4 is
> only one year old, its one hell of a price!
>
> Guesse I'l sit this one out.
We decided to sit on 3 and wait for 5 because of just such outrageous prices
for D4.
After hearing of D4's problems, I am glad we did. Given D3 stability, its
still hard to
work up a business case for D5 C/S. The things in D3 C/S that made it sound
attractive turned out to be mostly 3rd party stuff that worked badly. The
exception
being SQL-link. With so many BDE alternatives for native access, that is no
longer an issue. I think we have to look hard now at just D5 professional
with
add-ons for specific functionality that I need.
same.
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PO Box 30368, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Ph +64 4 5704821, fax +64 4 5704603
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