CodeGear and Embarcadero News by Greg (and DavidI)

June 7, 2008

CodeGear and Embarcadero News by Greg (and DavidI)

CodeGear blogs are very quiet these days, but Greg posted about his meetings in Scotts Valley. If you are in Europe, check out DavidI tour.

CodeGear blogs are very quiet these days, but Greg (aka, Embarcadero Product Manager Gregory Keller) posted about his meetings in Scotts Valley. If you are in Europe, check out DavidI tour touching Italy, Germany, UK, and the Netherlands.

For the Delphi Day in Italy we have over 80 people signed up and that we'll keep myself quite busy over the entire week (as I'm giving also two one-day pre-conference tutorials on dbExpress IV and the ClientDataSet component). And on Friday, I'll drive with David I to the south of Germany, for the Delphi Tage. I'll keep you posted...

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8 Comments

CodeGear and Embarcadero News by Greg and DavidI

Driver CodeGear/Embarcadero for Firebird Database ?
Price Delphi's (Tiburon) ?

Comment by Anderson on June 7, 14:58

CodeGear and Embarcadero News by Greg and DavidI

Nothing stops the development of an OS Firebird 
dbExpress driver.

Why are people still asking CodeGear to develop one? 
Why don't you ask Firebird to develop one? Why don't 
you and others develop an open source one, and donate 
it to the world?

I really hope CodeGear will concetrate its efforts in 
much more needed developments.

Comment by Luigi D. Sandon on June 7, 20:33

CodeGear and Embarcadero News by Greg and DavidI

"Much more needed developments." I agree with Luigi!

Developments such as - stop the .net follow the leader
and start building a realistic cross platform tool.
And don't tell me that Kylix was that. It was not!

I believe that the future of development is cross
platform oriented. M$ is never going to do that.
Codegear may be able to create something like that if
they stop their track of innovation by following the
.net track.

I would kill to have a familiar environment such as
the BDS IDE and the ability to develop native OS
applications whatever that OS may be.

C++ Builder has something called wxForms that is a
rather ingenious way of accomplishing that in C++
using wxWidgets (http://www.twinforms.com) and it cost
a mere 30 dollars for a single license. It is really
cool stuff.

Why can't the CodeGear R&D do something like that with
the whole BDS? It is possible and it would make the
product a lot more attractive.

Comment by Alan Fletcher [http://www.DelphiBistro.com] on June 10, 02:29

CodeGear and Embarcadero News by Greg and DavidI

Luigi,

Because love Delphi.
Why buy Delphi (CodeGear Solution - Full).
Buy components, develop driver - expensive solution
(and upgrade complex, expensive).

Free for Free, then NetBeans, Lazarus, Eclipse, ...

Without driver, without money for upgrade (choice).
Listen customers, easy upgrade (low cost).

Comment by Anderson on June 10, 05:45

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Anderson: if you look for a cheap/free tool, Delphi 
is not the solution for you. Nothing stops you from 
using FPC/Lazarus, Eclipse, NetBeans or whatever else.
I am really tired of people begging for a cheap/free 
Delphi - of course a full version with all they need 
to develop the applications they *sell* (especially 
drivers for free software to avoid using other 
CodeGear software).
And even if they are hobbyists, there are hobbyists 
ready to spend thousand of dollars/euro for example 
for motorbikes, bycicles, telescopes, or cameras and 
lenses, just to name a few, but "hey, software must 
come for free!".
Developing Delphi has a cost. Revenues have to pay 
for development. There isn't any big company behind 
paying for it. Besides Jedi somehow, I don't see a 
big FOSS comnunity around Delphi. Too many Delphi 
developers use free/OS software, but don't contribute 
at all. 
As a professional developer, what I care of is not 
price itself - it's the price/features and 
price/quality ratios. Maybe Delphi is now costly for 
what it offers - but I wish it could offer more, not 
a cheaper product with even less features.

Comment by on June 10, 11:23

CodeGear and Embarcadero News by Greg and DavidI

I'am student. I don't have money for Delphi, now I
need money for food, books, home, not for motorbikes,
bycicles, telescopes, or cameras...

I need special Delphi license, for example "if You are
student you can get one Delphi Proffesional License
for free in your life" or "First project you can
release for free, for releasing next projects you must
buy Delphi" or license like is in Hovok "publicly
demonstrate, and publicly sell a Havok-enabled
commercial PC Game only for the Windows PC Platform
for a retail value of less than or equal to ten US
Dollars (US$10.00)" in Delphi for example this can be
work for first (or more) "starter project".

Students in some countrys realy don't have money... 

But You are professional programmer and You can't
stand it :/!

Comment by Student on June 12, 11:46

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If you are a student you qualify for CodeGear 
Academic Program: 
http://www.codegear.com/en/article/37514
Most vendors have similar programs. Of course, you 
can't *sell* software developed with such licenses.

Comment by Luigi D. Sandon on June 12, 16:49

CodeGear and Embarcadero News by Greg and DavidI

Academic Program it's funny... All lecturer (they talk
about Delphi : it's not serious language/IDE, Borland
don't support students, there are better segment) on
my university (and in others univ.) direct to
VisualStudio because M$ have free versions (with
upgrades for comercial use), :(, it's very sad... 

But what I can do? Delphi don't give any perspective
for students!

Comment by Student on June 12, 21:59

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