August 29, 2007
1.75 Million Delphi Developers
Micheal Swindell gives official figures of the size of the Delphi community.
As already reported by Chris Bensen in his blog, Micheal Swindell has reported some official figures of the size of the Delphi community. Over in the non.technical newsgroup (open his message dated 17 Aug, 20:46), CodeGear Product Manager shared numbers based on official surveys (and not on the internal company sales and registration data, which is a well-kept secret):
Delphi has a developer population of approx 1.75 million users worldwide in 2006. Delphi has 15% IDE marketshare overall (7.7% ranked out of 100%) and is the #2 Windows IDE and the #4 IDE overall.
There isn't much to add... If I could only sell a new book to one in a hundred, that will be 17 thousand copies!
11 Comments
1.75 Million Delphi Developers
That's 1,750,001 because they never counted me.Comment by John on August 29, 20:20
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It could be true, because a lot of developers work on old versions. For example, our company still use Delphi 5 and I know folks who stick with Delphi 4.Comment by Andrei on August 30, 11:47
1.75 Million Delphi Developers
I guess that number includes an estimate of those who never bought a licensed copy ;)Comment by Luigi D. Sandon on August 30, 12:40
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I have about 6 or 7 of the books you wrote Marco and they are very good.Pitty there isn't a 'Mastering 2007' but it's probably impossible writing a book for every delphi that comes out :) I really do hope you would consider doing something (book or pdf wise)on Delphi 4 PHP, i think a lot of the people who have it would love to see that, i know i would...Comment by Franky [http://www.delphiwizard.org] on August 30, 23:32
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It's hard to find your books in Indonesia.. There are many Delphi developers here. I thinks it will be great if your books available in some cities here. Thanks.Comment by ebta [http://ebsoft.web.id] on September 6, 04:13
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I feel the figure is a hype. There will be many developers like me who own and use free versions. I personally own Delphi 6 Personal Edition. I have yet to develop a software on it though. So one can say that there are users like me also who keep in touch with Delphi but do not use it in commercial work at all. I have been trying out all the Delphi versions but am still not satisfied with any as far as stability is concerned. I use an old PC a 800 MHz PIII with 128 MB RAM and D6PE works like a zippy but all other versions are toooooo resource hungry and work like the slot (an animal found in Amazon forest). The reason why I am not using Delphi for commercial work is that still after all these years when ever I get stuck up it takes a hell lot of time solve a problem which I would solve in VB almost instantly because of lack of good literature specially prepared for lammer like me.Comment by Yogi Yang [] on September 14, 14:34
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If true then it seems odd that there are so few books on recent versions of Delphi. May be even fewer in the future because CodeGear ruined the help system. Very difficult to find what you need in the help file and very few books to search for help so one often gets stuck. What a shame.Comment by Jim R on September 17, 04:37
1.75 Million Delphi Developers
I couldn't say more with the current documentation aspects of Delphi lately. I enjoyed reading manuals for D5 and D7. But, ever since we started moving to Delphi studio, it seemed to me that Borland/Codegear became out of touch with the developers. The documentation that came along with their new releases is very bad!!! To think that not much books are written about Delphi (comparing with other tools). It is true that they packaged a lot of cool features in Delphi but still CodeGear needs to explain it. Explain it better! And lately, I have been seeing praises about the new book about ECO (i forgot the author from CodeGreat) but CodeGear site allows you only to purchase it if you are leaving in the US/Canada. Why is that? I am willing to pay for the shipping charges, guys!!! CodeGear's other offices in APAC do not sell it as if there are no developers of Delphi in APAC. Where I came from, there are not many developers of Delphi. In fact, CodeGear should thank me:) As head of software development team from my current company (almost 10 years now), all of my developers came from VB and they started learning Delphi (and OOP) because I told them that Delphi is better than VB. And, they all agreed (at least while they are in front of me). I am not sure though if the numbers included me and my developers. I doubt it:)Comment by Jimar on September 17, 13:02
1.75 Million Delphi Developers
Many people have been telling me of droping D and go to VC++ but I have never liked C++ syntax. After I have learned PHP it's easy to go for C# with is part of Delphi 2005 and newer. Today I don't care to much about syntax, my dream is to make Delphi IDE standart in all software companies, because I'm trying to get MS certified and I'm upset that IDE of Visual Studio .NET is so "primitive" in comparision with Delphi IDE Microsoft still like this "lame type" of right click commmand. Example - switching beetwin source code and Form designer - in Delphi simply F12 while in VS right click in solution explorer --> view code (with is slooooooow) I hope that I can find a job in company with uses Delphi for .Net programming I can use Delphi or C# syntax, Delphi IDE or C#Builder IDE, but the most important thig is Borland - they know what their are doing For me Borland forever - Delphi rulezComment by SKIRON [http://www.skiron.prv.pl] on November 28, 06:43
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i am afraid that the delphi future is pure.... i am still working in delphi 6 from delphi 1 but i thing that the hours of delphi are closed to end.. i have see vs 2008 but is very ancomfortable to switch now at 42 years (age) ...i dont know what can i doComment by elias on March 16, 21:49
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