>the price for Enterprise is
>set by where Enterprise sits in the market, priced Oracle
>or Rational Rose recently? or on a more proletairat level a copy of Adobe
>Capture?,
Which is why I have survived without any of those.
Let me put it all in perspective for you - I have no pointy-haired boss to
convince on this. I will have to find 5 and a half thousand dollars to get
into the latest version.
No HP, no trade-in, no nothing. That money will have to come out of my bank
account and the stuff in there has already been claimed by the Govt., my
kids (still studying in Poly), my wife (also studying in Poly), and my
little junior orchard which I am building up to be my retirement fund in
another 10 years or so, my wife's new car (now clocked over 350,000 km and
can no longer cut it), and I do have a new (cheap second hand) motorbike
yet to be purchased as my only ever purchase that will finally be for ME.
Although I have had steady contract work in Tauranga for the last 18
months, I never know when that will end (so far, it has ended at the end of
the week about 6 or 7 times now before being extended for unknown days).
Because I'm in a provincial city, I'm getting nowhere near the dollars
others have bandied and if I raise my price then I'll no longer be able to
be afforded by those who employ me. That means that I'll have to travel and
live weekdays in Auckland or Wellington. Done that too many years, sorry.
And now I'm being told that every 18 months or so I'll have to find out of
my own pocket another 5 and a half thousand dollars!
>As far as the Web Dev whine goes there
>are so many free development tools I really can't see that Borland has a
>responsibility to make our lives easier by allowing us
>to exist using one tool for everything
This one gets me. I've been doing web development since the early 90's,
some of my sites are doing exceptionally well, one in particular contains
around 25 megs of information, over 2 gigs of throughput and 400,000 hits
(75,000 page hits) per month, yet only in the last year am I finally
actually MAKING anything out of web development due to the extra abilities
that Delphi can give.
Delphi allows me to publish live data from the main database to the web for
my customers. If I couldn't use Delphi then they would have their choice of
a myriad of spotty faced kids with a copy of FrontPage and VB and printed
cards proclaiming to be web developers.
I've done the corporate bit for many years, been a pointy-haired boss
myself, enjoyed it, just don't like living in cities. Here in the
provincials, I bill my time out to people who have to find money themselves
to pay me - again no pointy-haired boss. My advantage against the kids with
Fontpage and VB is Delphi.
Take a look at the differences between Delphi Pro and Enterprise.
Everything new, everything that gives Delphi an advantage has been placed
in the Enterprise version. Borland don't want people like me who have been
building applications with their product since the day they opened, they
want the corporates.
What makes a corporate site? Lets say 4 developers - been there, doing that
now. The main project I'm on here has had four developers (currently 3 +
one more to start part time). The "corporate" doesn't own a single copy of
Delphi and wouldn't know the difference. The contract developers each are
working with their own licence. Each of us is damn sure to be legal and
none will be upgrading at that price and I'm damn sure that alternative
development tools will be discussed between us over the following weeks.
How about this Borland. Create the Enterprise version. Stick in everything
that'll help with multi-programmer large scale development like version
control, add in a 20 user licence for Interbase, add in a three to five
user licence for Delphi and sell it off for 10 or 15 or even 20K, but leave
the Pro version with enough ability so that the REAL PRO's out there can
use it.
It's the REAL PRO's that convinces the Corporates to buy, not the
pointy-haired bosses. Price out the REAL PRO's and your sales will disappear.
Steve Peacocke
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