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September 17, 2010

SDTimes reviews... next year Delphi!

SD Times has a review of RAD Studio XE, but they get quite a few things wrong, including features Delphi will have next year.

SD Times has a review of RAD Studio XE (by Andrew Binstock), but they get quite a few things wrong, including features Delphi will have next year. Not doing a good service to the product, not because they point out problems, but because they confuse potential buyers.

  • First, there is an interesting intro in which the author claims to have suggested Borland to "shut down non-core assets, including Delphi,". Good they didn't listen!
  • Second, saying that "RAD Studio XE, is technically an update to RAD Studio rather than to Delphi," is not really correct, as you can buy Delphi XE or the complete suite. Your choice.
  • Third, and more relevant, "Delphi is the anchor product in XE in that it defines the suite. Delphi generates pure Windows binaries, as well as binaries for Mac OS X and Linux". Ops, that's coming but not quite there!
  • Fourth, it continues about Delphi claiming it "The famous Delphi component palettes have been expanded with widgets for REST transactions, Facebook interaction, Google Maps and other technologies." Facebook and Google Maps? I missed those! Maybe there is some confusion with the RadPHP palette, which has those components.
  • Fifth, his reconstruction that the "neglect of C++ has long roots, going back 10 years when Visual Studio’s feature set began to surpass Borland’s C/C++ offerings" doesn't really match to what I recall. When was MFC superior to Borland's offering? Not clear. 

There are certainly a few interesting points in the article, and it is way better for Embarcadero to have an article with errors than no mention, but it is really misleading, particularly about the ability to generate Mac binaries. When I read an article with similar oversights, I wonder if they are all like this, only that I don't know because my knowledge is generally more limited. However, this particular article seems really at odds. Maybe SDTimes could get someone from the Delphi community, if not to write at least to review future articles on the product.

 





 

5 Comments

SDTimes reviews... next year Delphi 

Thanks for your review. I think you're right. I think
Andrew was wrong when describing the information about
Delphi.

Regards,


Eko Indriyawan
Comment by Eko Indriyawan [http://www.ekoindri.com] on September 17, 12:11

SDTimes reviews... next year Delphi 

The big problem is not the mistake about some things. 
The big problem is that they dont spent his time in analyze delphi due to 
the tool is not important.
And....... embarcadero dont spent his time in change this idea.
Its only a bussiness.
And the problem is............. chachaAAAAAA : 
¡ The comunity  change to another and new tool more cheaper and with 
more possibilities !
Thats all.
Comment by vic on September 17, 15:40

SDTimes reviews... next year Delphi 

I guess Embarcadero made its best to add confusion. 
If you don't follow closely what happens, is very 
easy to miss something. Embarcadero is guilt of its 
own FUD.
And it is true that despite MFC is not that good, 
with Visual Studio 6 Microsoft C++ regained a clear 
advantage over Borland C/C++ / C++ Builder that 
meanwhile became a too strange product - a C++ 
compiler that can't do almost anything but client GUI 
applications, improving slowly, with scarce 
optimizations and with some very strange off-road 
attempts (CBuilderX).
And despite that example that killed a market they 
owned, BorCodeDero made the same mistake later with 
Delphi.
Comment by Luigi D. Sandon on September 17, 19:12

SDTimes reviews... next year Delphi 

If I was a client of Mr Binstock, I'd be worried... 
He is a "market and product analysis" where 
he "performs market and product analysis and writes 
white papers for private clients". 

He gets so much stuff wrong about XE that it makes me 
question his track record at Pacific Data Works...
Comment by Eric Fortier on September 17, 21:36

SDTimes reviews... next year Delphi 

LOL! Mr. Bin[stock] has played a joke on Embarcadero :)
Comment by Serg [http://sergworks.wordpress.com] on September 18, 07:38


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