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March 22, 2007

Delphi 2007, Milan and Rome

I'm traveling back from Rome, after the second Italian stop of the Delphi 2007 and Delphi for PHP launch.

I'm on the train, going back home from Rome after the second leg of the Delphi 2007 and Delphi for PHP presentation in Italy. I've been asked by bitTime, the Italian partner representing CodeGear after the local office was closed, to give in both Milna and Rome a 45 minutes introduction to the new features of Delphi 2007... and there are so many that I had to cram a lot of information into too little time.

The event was well attended, with about 200 people total (130 Milan and 70 in Rome, more or less). There was also an InterBase 2007 presentation and, of course, one covering Delphi for PHP. To reassure the Italian developers that CodeGear is not forgetting them, at the Milan event we had the pleasure to have Peter Shambora (CodeGear's Senior Vice in charge of Worldwide Field Operations).

I met Peter for the first time and had a rather long chat with him, discussing possible future scenarios of how CodeGear could work at best with its many partners and longtime friends. It is also very positive to see similar top level people of the company come and get in touch with the users of their products around the world. By the way, Peter (as well as Ludo, who was also there) speaks quite good Italian having lived in the country in the past.

Differently from recent product launches, the audience was well disposed towards CodeGear and Delphi, much more than they were towards Borland and Delphi 2005 (and partially even 2006). It really looks like the Delphi community, even if smaller, is getting stronger and happier about its tool. Or possibly some of the vocal complainers have given up...

There were of course requests for the usual set of wanted features, 64-bit support, Unicode, a new Kylix compiler, .NET CF designers... and people did ask for an updated roadmap. But as Peter explained, there are legal hassles about giving out long term plans. Hope the Borland lawyers (or CodeGear ones) will find a way to let the company discuss their plans in non/binding terms.

Anyway, that's all for now. I'm posting this from the Florence station... and doubt I'll blog a lot in the next few days, as I'm getting ready for my flight to Melbourne. Stay tuned.

posted by marcocantu @ 10:32PM | 4 Comments [0 Pending]




 

4 Comments

Delphi 2007, Milan and Rome  

Well, not all "complainers" have left! :)

I for one still linger around, and maybe it's just a
case of bad luck but, even after re-installing a brand
new dev machine setup, I still managed to crash the
new "rock solid" Delphi 2007 a few times now! I've had
more crashes on Delphi 2007 in these last two days
than on BDS 2006 for the last year or more!

More about that in my blog:
http://memyselfanddelphi.blogspot.com/
Comment by Fernando Madruga [http://memyselfanddelphi.blogspot.com/] on March 22, 23:36

Delphi 2007, Milan and Rome  

Hey Marco,
  Great post! I enjoy reading about events like this
since being in R&D I don't get the opportunity to
travel and see first hand reactions.

I'm curious do you ask audiences about blogs and if
their aware of your blog as well as CodeGear blogs?
What about newsgroups? Do you find most people are
either aware of or use the public newsgroups?

Have a great trip to Melbourne, I'm jealous!
Comment by Steve Trefethen [http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog/] on March 23, 05:28

Delphi 2007, Milan and Rome  

Fernando,
  crashes are certainly possible but far from usual.
I've not had any big issue on my computers since I
installed Delphi 2007 on Sunday (got an early copy!).
BTW, one think is to point out problems and a
different thing is to be a complainer ("whatever
CodeGear does they should have done the opposite").

Steve,
  on average not many people attending events follow
blogs. Only a fraction of those in Milan (possibly 3
or 4) had followed CodeRage, and most of them had not
heard about it. While the online community is active
in newsgroups and blogs, there is a large offline
community. And also, in foreign countries, quite a few
programmers that can read English but with an effort.
Comment by Marco Cantù [http://www.marcocantu.com] on March 23, 12:37

About Delphi presentation in Milan...  

I am writing a report about the presentation (in
Italian language) hoping that it would be a good
reference for Italian speaking people to get to know
what we have seen.

I've heard about new Delphi features before the 
presentation, but seeing it live "in action"
especially on Vista is awesome!

I agree that - even if Delphi 2007 targets the Win32
platform only - it will be an "hard to forget" release
(in a positive way). And Delphi for PHP seems cool, too!

Bye Marco, and have a nice travel and stay in Melbourne!

  MARCO BREVEGLIERI
Comment by Marco Breveglieri [http://blog.marco.breveglieri.name] on March 23, 15:34


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