Correspondent from New York
If 20% of your source code base is in Delphi, why not convert it to C# and VB.NET. Then no more Delphi is needed.
Here are some suggestions:
- If your management don't want to buy Delphi, you can ask your management to deduct from your wages the cost of Delphi. For example - Delphi Professional costs around Rupiah 8,000,000 in Indonesia, ask them to give you a 8 months salary deduction, say, R1,000,000 a month and if you leave the company, you need pay the rest.
- Take a personal loan from a Bank and then you can buy Delphi Professional, buy some licensed components as well.
- Quit your existing job, take a big loan and start your own business where you sell components and you can surely get some money. But remember to pay your bank loan on-time or you could be worse-off...
Well... these sound cruel to you and not it is not advised for you to do such things. What about the company who pays you your wages? There's a person there who has to collect the money from others in-order to pay you your wages. Do you find it cruel to ask that person to pay for it instead? So the reason why that person refused is because it costs too much money.
Wheels of Karma turns one circle
Who is more cruel - the people who set the high prices for Delphi or your manager who refuses to buy Delphi? You could live your fate by buying Delphi and then having much less money. Good luck if you can earn enough the next 365 days to pay for Delphi XE3 or XE4...
@JaimyAzle: The XE2 release was indeed very exiting. However, with several old
delphi projects had been discontinued and unmaintained, while our delphi
code (alive and used) was just only left to 20% from our total code
base on existing live projects. I found It was hard to find reasons to
propose XE2 upgrade to the management. :(
If 20% of your source code base is in Delphi, why not convert it to C# and VB.NET. Then no more Delphi is needed.
Here are some suggestions:
- If your management don't want to buy Delphi, you can ask your management to deduct from your wages the cost of Delphi. For example - Delphi Professional costs around Rupiah 8,000,000 in Indonesia, ask them to give you a 8 months salary deduction, say, R1,000,000 a month and if you leave the company, you need pay the rest.
- Take a personal loan from a Bank and then you can buy Delphi Professional, buy some licensed components as well.
- Quit your existing job, take a big loan and start your own business where you sell components and you can surely get some money. But remember to pay your bank loan on-time or you could be worse-off...
Well... these sound cruel to you and not it is not advised for you to do such things. What about the company who pays you your wages? There's a person there who has to collect the money from others in-order to pay you your wages. Do you find it cruel to ask that person to pay for it instead? So the reason why that person refused is because it costs too much money.
Wheels of Karma turns one circle
Who is more cruel - the people who set the high prices for Delphi or your manager who refuses to buy Delphi? You could live your fate by buying Delphi and then having much less money. Good luck if you can earn enough the next 365 days to pay for Delphi XE3 or XE4...
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I think you can use bomb and destory Embarcadero and their products so that your frustration will be over.
Hater N.Y.
No, conversion makes no sense. Maybe to expensive, who does pay?
The only risk I see is - EMB must believe that Delphi is No 1. otherwise they deny the reason for their own existence.
Not everyone who develops Software is a developer or better said engineer.
The question is then, did engineer succeed when the one who created a system is in the position to maintain and extend.
I think this company would do themselves a favor to invest into doing away with the developers instead of porting the code.
What a load of crap, I make about 70K a year using Delphi, and I don't even use it primarily.
@Delphi Hater -> Correspondence
To many Bud-Weisers today?, thats not even sarcastic. That's it, you're grounded :D
++Technologies
Nice, Friends of mine make the double net using C# - has nothing to do with Delphi or .net.
Bunny, you are absolutely right it has to do with not being lazy. There are plenty of of jobs out there.
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