I was a user of D7 ent. and upgraded to RAD 2010 Pro using their promotion offers (remark: thanks John Bird for your suggestion last year). I am quite happy with the upgrade price of US$400. To be honest, with a great product like Delphi, I don't mind paying few hunderds dollars every few years just for upgrade.
However, I like to develop software for remote database connection. Enterprise version is good but the price is too high for my freelance projects. What I like to see is a better pricing for these higher versions. At the moment I just use third party components for remote DB connection, which saves me some money and do the work well. Also, it would be nice if there is TurboWhatever versions similar to the free express versions that is offered by other competitor(s). It will be good for anyone (especailly students) to learn Delphi. Academic market is like growing trees. If they don't do it now, they won't get fruits at the end. And the old trees will eventually gone (retired)! Cheers Rodney -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz]on Behalf Of delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz Sent: Friday, 22 October 2010 9:43 a.m. To: delphi@delphi.org.nz Subject: Delphi Digest, Vol 84, Issue 13 Send Delphi mailing list submissions to delphi@delphi.org.nz To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserver.123.net.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz You can reach the person managing the list at delphi-ow...@delphi.org.nz When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Delphi digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Delphi Specials (Jolyon Smith) 2. Re: Delphi Specials (Cheng Wei (FMI)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:12:43 +1300 From: Jolyon Smith <jsm...@deltics.co.nz> Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Specials To: "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'" <delphi@delphi.org.nz> Message-ID: <002f01cb715c$52290120$f67b03...@co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" One other thing on the Windows vs Delphi ownership experience. Since buying Delphi 7 a number of years ago, on a NUMBER of occasions when installing it on those new PC?s of mine I have had difficulty activating and thus being able to USE the software I bought. In the same period I had such trouble only ONCE with my XP installs. When we purchased our Delphi 2010 licenses last year we had a number of difficulties activating the product EVEN FOR THE FIRST TIME. And it?s not about not rewarding Embarcadero, it?s about Embarcadero not offering a product that is worth the amount being asked for it. At work my employer provides my license. I can use that license at home too. But if I want to do my OWN work, not connected to my employer, I need to be able to use my own license otherwise my employer may lay a claim the work I produce, even though it is in my own time. This is perhaps not as common in NZ/AU, but it is quite common to have such claims made explicit in employment contracts in the UK, for example. And unless such claims on IP are explicitly relinquished in your contract, your employer might yet have a legitimate claim to make, should it become in their interests to do so. But I do not need Architect or Enterprise for the sort of things I do in my own time. I do not even need Pro. I do not want or need modelling or a large number of the refactorings (which don?t work much of the time anyway). I don?t even need DBExpress (ADO is freely available) and I certainly don?t need BlackFish (does anyone even use it). So why can?t I buy a $200-$400 edition of Delphi that gives me what I want and need? Until I can, Embarcadero are simply losing that potential sale. http://www.deltics.co.nz/blog/?p=533 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.123.net.nz/pipermail/delphi/attachments/20101022/ffa58a73/ attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:42:35 +1300 From: "Cheng Wei (FMI)" <che...@fmi.co.nz> Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Specials To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <delphi@delphi.org.nz> Message-ID: <d318bfcbae3ca84b98f2b644430fdd39655...@fmisrv01.fmi.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Since buying Delphi 7 a number of years ago, on a NUMBER of occasions when installing it on those new PC's of mine I have had difficulty activating and thus being able to USE the software I bought. In the same period I had such trouble only ONCE with my XP installs. When we purchased our Delphi 2010 licenses last year we had a number of difficulties activating the product EVEN FOR THE FIRST TIME. When it comes to software registration with Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero we suffer a great deal, on a regular basis. We purchase and supply InterBase to about 100 sites in NZ and AU. IB registrations have ALWAYs been a "hit and miss" experience, you never know whether it will be a success or a failure. We feel very much let down by Embarcadero. Thanks Cheng ________________________________ From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jolyon Smith Sent: Friday, 22 October 2010 9:13 a.m. To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Specials One other thing on the Windows vs Delphi ownership experience. Since buying Delphi 7 a number of years ago, on a NUMBER of occasions when installing it on those new PC's of mine I have had difficulty activating and thus being able to USE the software I bought. In the same period I had such trouble only ONCE with my XP installs. When we purchased our Delphi 2010 licenses last year we had a number of difficulties activating the product EVEN FOR THE FIRST TIME. And it's not about not rewarding Embarcadero, it's about Embarcadero not offering a product that is worth the amount being asked for it. At work my employer provides my license. I can use that license at home too. But if I want to do my OWN work, not connected to my employer, I need to be able to use my own license otherwise my employer may lay a claim the work I produce, even though it is in my own time. This is perhaps not as common in NZ/AU, but it is quite common to have such claims made explicit in employment contracts in the UK, for example. And unless such claims on IP are explicitly relinquished in your contract, your employer might yet have a legitimate claim to make, should it become in their interests to do so. But I do not need Architect or Enterprise for the sort of things I do in my own time. I do not even need Pro. I do not want or need modelling or a large number of the refactorings (which don't work much of the time anyway). I don't even need DBExpress (ADO is freely available) and I certainly don't need BlackFish (does anyone even use it). So why can't I buy a $200-$400 edition of Delphi that gives me what I want and need? Until I can, Embarcadero are simply losing that potential sale. http://www.deltics.co.nz/blog/?p=533 ############################################################################ ######### Scanned by MailMarshal - M86 Security's comprehensive email content security solution. Download a free evaluation of MailMarshal at www.m86security.com ############################################################################ ######### -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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