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February 7, 2012

Delphi Whopping 2011 Growth: 54%

Embarcadero has announced some great growth numbers of Delphi and C++Builder in 2011.

Embarcadero has announced some great growth numbers of Delphi and C++Builder in 2011: 54% growth over 2010 in worldwide sales. Considering the 15% growth of previous years, it means the Delphi sales have double since Embarcadero took over the "CodeGear" business unit from Borland. I have to say that as a re-seller, I saw similar numbers, so this is not completely surprising.

In the press release there isn't much else in terms of numbers, only a general description of the relevance of the Mac and iOS ecosystem in companies. There is also a summary of the last quarter events, which saw over 10,000 registered attendees.

Well done Delphi (and Embarcadero): Once again, rumors of your death were greatly exaggerated. This sale numbers are a nice birthday present!

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posted by marcocantu @ 10:17PM | 14 Comments [0 Pending]

14 Comments

Delphi Whopping 2011 Growth 54

I find it a bit hard to believe, I'm sure all those 
conferences have proven very good for attendees and 
Embarcadero.
 
About a year ago I've wrote(http://
www.delphigeist.com/2011/02/breaking-news-1st-
november-2011-rad.html), it seems that Embarcadero was 
actually planning some of the points I was trying to make 
or someone from Embarcadero actually read my post(I'm not 
so sure about this).

Without numbers, I don't believe it to be true, however, 
let's say they've sold ~1,200(pulling numbers out of my 
((: for argument sake) more copies last year than the 
year before that, that's really not a big deal, they are 
still not targeting future developers(schools are still 
going for Visual Studio Express), also, keeping in mind 
the quality of XE/XE2, how many of the people that bought 
it will be buying XE2 SP11/XE3 or whatever they want to 
call it?

I know 2 companies that won't buy this year's release and 
will stick to D2010, those companies sum about 10 Delphi 
Architect(that's about $30K-ish?) licenses, bummer isn't 
it?

If anyone has any idea of how many licenses Embarcadero 
sells/year on average, I would appreciate if you can 
share that information.

--
Dorin D.

Comment by Dorin Duminica [http://www.delphigeist.com] on February 8, 00:16

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Those growth figures correlate very well with ohloh ones:

https://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?l0=pascal&measure=commits&percent=true

Something is definitely happening.

Comment by Eric [http://delphitools.info/] on February 8, 07:17

Delphi Whopping 2011 Growth 54

I would like to know what was the real reason. 
Win64?  MacOS? iOS? A combination of them?
If it was Win64... how much time wasted! ;)

Comment by Luigi D. Sandon on February 8, 09:23

Delphi Whopping 2011 Growth 54

@Dorin --

If the numbers are not true, then someone has likely 
committed a major crime of fraud.

Or, put another way, it's ridiculous to think that a 
press release from a $75 million dollar company contains 
lies.

Comment by Nick Hodges [http://www.nickhodges.com] on February 8, 14:49

Delphi Whopping 2011 Growth 54

Delphi is growing not only from the sales perspective:
I have noted a rise in the Tiobe index
(http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html)
for two consecutive months now. Delphi’s grandpa,
Pascal, is rising as well in Tiobe. 

I attended to the RAD Studio XE and XE2 Tours in
Toronto. The number of attendees was easily 3 times
higher in 2011 than it was in 2010.

Comment by Yanniel [http://www.yanniel.info/p/delphi-programming.html] on February 8, 15:39

Delphi Whopping 2011 Growth 54

Thinking it's good news... I am happy about.

EMB will not tell us the absolute numbers, no vendor
does. This makes sense, because not everyone,
especially competition, is a friendly observer.

You can rely on the official numbers. I tend to
believe the increase, as Eric said, something is
happening.

@Luigi - If product's characteristics would be a
purchasing decision's driving force, MS would not have
sold a copy in the early days. In the 90s we still had
the forces product offerings and brand. Moved strong
towards brand today. Agreed something that does not
match cannot be sold, but you can have the best
product ... without attracting the people that fit to
you.  So EMB has been very successfully in attracting
people but of course convinced with a consistent
offering as a whole.

@Dorin D. On Spirit of Delphi - I think not blowing
the whistle for a product but blowing the pipe for the
battle, finally makes the difference. Maybe the
Zeitgeist is moving into this direction or new markets
attracted many people who think a different way. Maybe
someone considers your suggestions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3oz0zhEwZk

Comment by Michael Bunny on February 8, 15:55

Delphi Whopping 2011 Growth 54

@Nick Hodges

"If the numbers are not true, then someone has likely 
committed a major crime of fraud."
In this world NO ONE commits any crime!! (:

$75 million... WOW, that's really big...

Let me get this straight, half a dozen huge corporations 
are making public the fact that they are loosing BILLIONS 
-- I can't stress enough BILLIONS OF US DOLLARS LOST -- 
which hurts their public image and probably scares a lot 
of shareholders, hover, Embarcadero DOES NOT release it's 
54% GROWTH numbers because of... WHAT?!

Of course I(we) can be missing something...

Comment by Dorin Duminica [http://www.delphigeist.com] on February 9, 03:08

Delphi Whopping 2011 Growth 54

it is simple to analyze the growth!
it comes Mac OS them growing and firemonkey takes care 
of this market

Comment by Savério Vertoni [http://saveriovertoni.wordpress.com] on February 9, 06:10

Delphi Whopping 2011 Growth 54

 Embarcadero has already commented that they a having 15 
% increase in Delphi /C++ sales every year(It means 30% 
from 2010 to xe2) but fortunately this time it is 24% 
increase. 

Is this means Growth 54 in revenue from Delphi or 54% in 
new purchases. 

Embarcadero offered many offers for XE and XE2 after 3 
months of release(decreased prices drastically).So i 
think they are getting the same(little increase) amount 
of revenue but getting more new customers(cool).

Comment by VRV on February 9, 07:26

Delphi Whopping 2011 Growth 54

@Dorin EMBT is not listed at the Stock Exchange ... so
no need to put figures out in public.

Comment by Michael Thuma on February 9, 15:58

Delphi Whopping 2011 Growth 54

developers might also be fed up of chasing M$

Comment by Justin [http://yahoo.com/net_roamer] on February 12, 22:20

Delphi Whopping 2011 Growth 54,

It’s nice to read Embarcadero has increased their
Delphi sales by 54% but why is this not reflected in
the number of job openings? To me it looks like they
are simply milking more money from their existing users.

Comment by Johan Verbeeck on February 13, 11:44

Delphi Whopping 2011 Growth 54

Johan, as far as I know they hired new R&D members in 
various locations around the world, new marketing and 
product managers, and they have open positions on both 
sides.

Which is your source in terms of lack of jobs openings? 
I see multiple Delphi-related jobs at:
http://embarcadero.com/company/careers-us

Comment by Marco Cantu [http://www.marcocantu.com] on February 13, 12:01

Delphi Whopping 2011 Growth 54

@Marco: In my previous comment I was referring to the
job market in general. Searching on the Dutch Monster
website gives me 37 jobs for Delphi, 495 jobs for C#
and 620 Java(script) jobs. Unfortunately there still
is no uptick in the number of Delphi jobs. Without a
good job market the future of Delphi looks bleak, very
bleak.

Comment by Johan Verbeeck on February 13, 13:39

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