>Doesn't have to spend 6 months learning how the new chair he has just bought
>works before he is really effective.
Add to that...
In two years time, he can still re-coop much of the purchase price by
selling it to, for example, go to another brand (try selling a Delphi 3 C/S
for anything more than packet of minties and a half-eaten chocolate fish).
He can sell it to the new dentist who wants to buy his practice.
He can trade it in on the new model.
If his business goes belly-up, he can sell it.
He doesn't HAVE to upgrade to stay with the market.
Sorry but at around $5.5K just to get the latest and greatest is totally
out of the question. I have spent many months deliberating on and
justifying purchasing DBISAM for around NZ$600.
Having had Delphi since prior to version 1, and Turbo Pascal before that
since version 1.0, I feel that Delphi has outgrown my ability to afford it.
I'm stuck with a prior version unable to even consider an upgrade, yet my
very livelihood depends on this language. I'd even consider the Pro
version, but a lot of my work is in Internet development and all the
Internet stuff (at least in previous versions) has been in the enterprise
version.
More than a little pissed off that what started out as a good cheap
language for the genuine programmer has now become a luxury item only
available to the very large corporates.
Steve Peacocke
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