$6670 + GST = +/-$7500
Which is closer to $8K for a new entrant to the Delphi market.
Delphi is productive, but you have to use it before you realize just how
productive it is. That good old chicken and egg scenario again!
Further that $8k is the upfront 'reach into your pocket and smack your money
on the table' cost, whereas the saved labour cost is ?
I will play devils advocate and argue that any saved labour with Delphi gets
translated into research labour in trying to figure out odd
incompatibilities and quirks. Problems that Visual Studio developers are
less likely to have given their larger mass and Microsoft's deeper knowledge
of Windows...
Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nic Wise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2001 1:55 p.m.
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: d6 - pricing, mutter...
>
>
> That maybe so, but its tools like gcc (especially gcc) that
> make people use
> Delphi and Kylix in the first place. It may cost you $6K for
> the enterprise
> verison of the Delphi 6, but how long _extra_ (at, for eg,
> $80/hr) would it
> take to write an app in gcc? Hell, how much extra time would
> it take to
> _compile_ something with gcc, which is pretty much the world slowest
> compiler (unless they have improved it out of sight in gcc 3.x).
>
> :)
>
> N
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Derricutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 1:36 PM
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: d6 - pricing, mutter...
>
>
> > it's also prices like these that make people look towards
> say gcc and
> > KDevelop and linux/open source solutions.
> >
> > --On Wednesday, 9 May 2001 1:05 p.m. +1200 Martin Paulo
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > PS: Having just compared these prices to our MSDN
> subscription price I
> can
> > > see that it is probably time to start brushing up on my C# skills!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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