Like wise - professional Software developer was self employed for 10 years, now receiving income by salary from a large international company. I wrote an application using D3, which is still running reliably in a 24x7 manufacturing envionment, weigh and labelling product every 3 seconds, and stuffing data into an oracle database. The qualification is that it either works or it doesn't, if it doesn't you don't get any more work. The work that i put in to the development of the application has ment it has run on win98,nt 2k, xp without any changes. It is also the bench mark that new projects are compared to. I now work for the company that i wrote that application for and have been tasked with upgrading or replacing to include a lot more functionality. After downgrading to 2005 I redeveloped my application to use a Rockwell PLC for another client and gave delphi the boot, subsequently all installations and varations of it have ment my money has gone to rockwell for there hardware and software. I was looking at upgrading my copy of Delphi - but to be honest I may well be better off sticking with the Rockwell PLC, not as nice to code but reliable, occasional bugs that are fixed without major drama. Espcially if I run into show stoppers like Delphi 2005 Maurice -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Paul A Norman Sent: Saturday, 19 September 2009 1:09 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero
Dear Richard, " I however, am a professional software developer." I am sure that you are, infact from everything I have heard of you and your work people should seriously consider looking at you and your consultancy for any work espeically in areas of complexity that need special expertise in advanced programing. What I am trying to address here is the changed busines model that the Delphi Community is being asked to swallow hook line and sinker. It is true as you say that E need to make money. What we and they are needing to look at is the model by which they wish to do so, realizing that we are their cash cows! Now what is a "profesional programmer", just one who receives their income by invoicing directly for progranmming work?
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