> Both companies provide tools to develop software. Borland's are better and
> they set the price accordingly. The seminars offer a chance for the company
> to demo the product, and show how easy it is to use. Assuming you own the
> product being demo'd, I would contend that the value to you of taking a day
> off work and attending either seminar is comparable, and therefore that the
> Borland seminars are hardly worth over 5 times the price.
I must say that the Java seminar I attended in Auckland, whilst having reasonable
quality of material and presentation was light on content... I was listed as being
aimed at getting 'intermediate' delphi programmers into the starting blocks of
java but I feel that a Delphi programmer of an intermediate level should have been
able to tolerate a higher rate of information being presented.
If Borland were offering another Java course I would be wanting some evidence
up-front that the content would be higher before paying such figures.
I must add as an afterthought that the term 'intermediate Delphi' was used I feel
to also imply 'beginner/intermediate OOP'... Java enforces an appreciation for OOP
that people should already be using in Delphi if they want to maximise it's
capabilities...
NB. Mildly hipocritical here in that I haven't had opportunity to apply interfaces
in our existing developments as their design predated D4 - and we didn't want to
mix our drinks... ;)
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Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
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