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March 11, 2011

Delphi XE Enterprise Double Discount

I don't generally blog about commercial offers, but this one can be quite interesting for many of you, so I think it is worth to mention.

Embarcadero is trying to move all existing Delphi users to Delphi XE Enterprise, by offering a rather good deal. You can upgrade from XE Professional (which is generally not allowed), you can upgrade at a 500 USD/Euro discounted price from older versions, and you can upgrade (for this month only) also from very old versions (giving you another 500 USD/Euro off compared to the full version).

So if you have, say, Delphi 7, you can migrate to Delphi XE Enteprise at half the normal price. Which makes it quite nice. Of course, on top of the product you'd probably need soem good documentation, like my "Collection of Delphi Handbooks" merging together my books on 2007, 2009, and 2010. Buy it and I'll get you an extra section on Delphi XE for free (hopefully soon).

We did metnion this offer over the last two days in Bergamo and Bologna (where 50 + 50 Delphi developers, most on old versions, gathered for a free event) and they were indeed quite interested. Some also asked about giving the Starter Edition to student who occasionally contribute with them on minor projects. More info on the Upgrade Amnesty at http://www.embarcadero.com/radspecial and on the XE Enterprise Upgrade Special Prices at http://www.embarcadero.com/radoffer.

And if you are in Italy, you can buy at my online shop at http://shop.wintech-italia.com/.

posted by marcocantu @ 4:33PM | 7 Comments [0 Pending]

7 Comments

Delphi XE Enterprise Double Discount

 Embarcadero try to sell Delphi but developers are
tired of this silly releases... nothing really cool
for this expensive release!! (and buy again
devexpress, reportbuilder, third party compos...a lot
of money.
(using Delphi since TurboPascal and migrating to
Visual Studio C#)

Comment by on March 11, 16:45

Delphi XE Enterprise Double Discount

I already have the offer in my Inbox ... also + SA is 
a very good option. Mabye time to take the 
opportunity. 

I was missing this ... finally the difference is the 
SA in the first year and SA just means earlier 
payment of the same if someone doing regular updates 
it is more cost effective I think at least from my 
experience with the E/R Studio over 11 years now.

Mike

Comment by Michael Thuma on March 11, 17:32

Delphi XE Enterprise Double Discount

I have RAD Studio 2010 Enterprise.

While I enjoyed the extra productivity of Delphi, the 
lack of 64-bit has hurt my business and I had to 
switch to Visual C++.

There is a small windows of opportunity for 
Embarcadero to lure me back, but it will be nearly 
impossible after I buy 3rd party frameworks for native 
C++ and .NET this year.

The productivity I lost was made up by being able to 
use many open source C++ libraries that can be static 
linked into my executables.
 
I hope RAD Studio 2012 does so well that Microsoft has 
to drastically improve their native C++ IDE.

Comment by Rich on March 11, 22:14

Delphi XE Enterprise Double Discount

I have used Delphi/c/c++ since the beginning, and I 
am very disappointed in the way that the upgrades 
have been progressing and the lack of helpful pricing 
plans. I have had lost opportunities while being 
loyal to Borland and on and on. Why be loyal to a 
brand that does not help loyal developers. I have 
since had to move to c# and Visual Studio for the 
past couple of years. I have been hoping that Delphi 
would be something that I could get back into since I 
have always loved the syntax of Pascal, however, I do 
not believe that I will ever be able to afford the 
upgrade pricing.

Comment by Mike on March 12, 07:39

Delphi XE Enterprise Double Discount

Embaracadero lossed our company when they enacted 
their rediculous pricing scheme (Maintenance scheme). 
We had been using Delphi since 1995. We currently 
still develop using Delphi 7 and we own one licenced 
copy of Rad Studio 2010. However, this is only to 
maintain our legacy code. We went from 9 Delphi 
programmers down to one. Me! We have turned all our 
attetion, new code and projects to Java.  Thanks for 
scaring us away Embaradero.  BTW, we also use to 
license Interbase as well. And with each of our new 
clients, they sold new licenses for Interbase too. 
They lost all that!  I see a downfall to Embarcadero. 
And I see it very soon. Its a shame!

Comment by SHanw on March 12, 13:43

Delphi XE Enterprise Double Discount

I wished that some people that are using old Delphi 
versions would upgrade. It would make everyones life 
easier.

For me maybe little radical approach is Delphi + 
Working Open Source - this corner in general is 
performing well.

Finally guys every IDE has a complementary and this is 
content. It will be hard to outperform the masses of 
implementations in the "meanstream" world but what we 
can do is to provide open source stuff that works.

I personally would also be more radical ... third-
party components only 2 versions back max 3.

Mike/Bunny

Comment by Michael Thuma on March 12, 14:39

Delphi XE Enterprise Double Discount

SHanw!

I what point did EMB scare you away?

The fact that Windows Software is an expensive concept 
in this point I agree because it is the only plattform 
beside Apple that still follows the way of 
applications. This concept is simply successful.

Java is not an application approach. It is built to 
engineer complex systems and by far not a bad thing, 
especially when can benefit from Linux or more general 
UNIX derivates including OS/X.

What you did is - you changed the technology I tend to 
say you changed the with the paradigm but at an early 
point in time. This is normal. You decided for another 
way.

Rich!

I tend to think, EMB will be wise to move away Delphi 
native from Microsofts path and they already 
positioned Prism in this corner. I was also surprised 
about the way WPF was evolved especially WPF/E with 
.net 4 and VS 2010 and the C/C++ portion. Again I see 
VS more and more as the tool for the MS Partner. This 
is the lock in.

Anyway MS never had a problem wasting time of their 
partners. I could imagine like music bands - EMB plays 
the music for the Delphi developers and those who 
simply support their way. Maybe they play cover 
versions in a new but different way, it is not false 
play the hits. I could imagine they put it with the 
time into the Enterprise corner with RAD. This way it 
will find it's corner. Why should a company support 
people that already divorced or consider their 
demands... business is not done this way.

EMB started from a given situation and moving forward.  
Things have become better now 3 releases. Also EMB 
cannot take over themselves and is bound to ressource 
limits.


Mike

Comment by Michael Thuma on March 12, 23:21

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