Corey accidently sent this directly to me...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/05/2001 14:40:18:
>
>While it may look like I am defending the pricing I am not. I think
>it is over priced here in Australia (and NZ) when compared with the US
>and salaries are also compared. If you are a new user, why buy the
Unfortunately Delphi (and Builder) are expensive products. Playing
Devil's Advocate for the moment:
Visual Studio 6 Enterprise costs US$1619 for a new user. That's with
VB, VC++, VJ++, V-InterDev, VFoxPro and M$'s versioning system
SourceSafe. Compare that against US$2499 for Delphi 5 Enterprise and
you'll see there's a huge gap... and it's a slightly bigger gap (about
2%) for the upgrades. So for about 35% less you get, from some
viewpoints, 5 times as much.
Doing a 1-1 comparison, VC++ 6.0 Enterprise is US$1299 new. That's a
mere 52% of the cost of Delphi 5.
Now repeat the above with Delphi 6 Enterprise at US$2999.
As a BCB developer I'm more than happy to stay with BCB/Delphi
(especially as with BCB I get most of the Delphi language as well)
because it's most comfortable developing with. But I still think it's
harsh that we have to pay so much for, comparatively, so little. Add
the COL and exchange rate disparity into the equation and here in NZ
we're shelling out big time just to keep up.
I understand that Borland doesn't have the customer base or assets of
M$, and thus can't afford to short themselves on product revenue, but
to get more customers they're going to have to rely on more than the
product's appeal - great as it is. Pricing almost double of the
nearest percieved equivalent from M$ is going to end up losing them
potential customers. It's a fine line, and I'm glad I'm not the one
that has to set prices.
Still, I like the products so I'll stick with them. I might skip the
odd version though.
>enterprise version straight away. There is enough in Pro or even
>standard to keep you occupied unless you need that specific enterprise
>functionality and hopefully you have a client already to spread out
>the costs. Although apparently you can no longer create commercial
>apps with the standard version. How do they police that? Is this
>true? I heard it on the newsgroups...
I can think of a couple of ways to enforce this, but I would guess that
it's a license thing. Policing that wouldn't be trivial, but it
wouldn't be hard to brand executables as having been produced by the
standard version.
--
Corey Murtagh
The Electric Monk
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!"
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