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Five Favorite Things about Delphi 2007
There is a new release of Delphi for Win32 due out soon and there is a rush of people blogging about their five favourite things about D2007. Most of these people have been involved in the field test and know a lot about the product, but we have not had our hands on it yet. Nevertheless we are excited about the product and here are our reasons why.
1. This is a Win32 version - excellent stuff. Previously the push has seemed to be primarily on the .Net side of the tool and to be brutally honest, if we want to do .Net development, we would most probably use Visual Studio. But Delphi is the only serious tool out there that still does native development and we like being able to ship applications that do not rely on the .Net framework.
2. Turbo upgrades. Last year, the Turbo editions of Delphi were announced. These were designed for beginners, hobbyists etc. Originally, if the only Delphi product you had bought was a Turbo, you were not eligible to upgrade to D2007. We understood that, and it was not a problem for us as we overqualify for the upgrade anyway. But there were grumblings from those who had bought the Turbos and as a result, anyone who has bought a Turbo can now upgrade. What we really like about this is CodeGear has listened to their customers and done something about it. This would never have happened in the old days.
3. Buzz. There is definitely a buzz about this version and CodeGear itself. The enthusiasm shown in the newsgroups, blogs and in CodeRage (the online conference) is fantastic. So much better than the "Delphi is dead" nonsense that we have heard.
4. Software Assurance (SA). Ok - this doesn't really excite us, but we do think it is a good idea. We have discussed amongst ourselves that the best model for software vendors if they can manage it is software subscription. MS do this with MSDN. With a subsription model, there is less of a need to build headline features to sell new versions. We would be more happy if effort was spent ensuring the product is rock solid and improving existing technologies than working in unnecessary goodies.
5. Stability. There does again seem a push for ensuring that stability comes before getting the product out of the door. Stability is so important that this has to be a good thing.
We like CodeGear, they seem to be doing good things and when they make mistakes, they fix them. This is how a company should be run, with bean counters much further down the hierarchy and people who care at the top.
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07/09/2010
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