Correspondent from New York
Your correspondent looks with amusement over the uptick on activity from Delphi.
The combine and delete trick
They eliminated FreePascal, the legitimate alternative to the cash-hungry Delphi. So poof, Free-Pascal and "Object Pascal" community, which is completely different from Delphi gets merged into Delphi for the TIOBE Index. If FreePascal was made separate, the Delphi index would fall another 50 basis points.
Delphi does not matter
Delphi does not matter. Delphi's TIOBE index is lower than in 2004, Delphi's lowest point and prices are still sky-high. The high priests, the bishops and cardinals at the church of Embarcardero are more interested in membership gains (i.e., more people buying Delphi), encouraging developers to live by Delphi alone and sola-source-code, that is, pure 100% Delphi components and no adulterated ActiveX or COM objects.
The TeamB Cardinals encourage indulgences, which is, remission from Delphi by being pro-active in the Embarcadero forums, trolling developers who speak nasty things against Delphi, sacrificing their monies by giving generously to Delphi-related clauses.
A community in siege
Few days ago, there was almost 500 post reply about Delphi in Decline, generally insulting to the Brazilian community. The price of Delphi is so high, that many Brazilian Delphi developers came to the conference just for the Delphi discount at the end of the conference.
Embarcadero was not interested to improve the buying process: They still have to order from MicroFocus (formerly Borland) via old-fashioned Fax and cannot buy from USA, to by-pass expensive prices and taxes.
The Brazilian Delphi community, one of the biggest readers of this blog (besides Russia and Hong Kong) suffer from low wages and high prices. The problem stems from the high US$ to Brazilian Rael rates. Adobe and Microsoft sell Brazilian-only versions of their products at slightly lower prices (i.e., Juan* the Visual C++ and Jose* the Graphics Designer have good jobs).
Some of the Delphi Brazilians gave up their Delphi jobs and moved on. The pay is too low and too much work. You use PHP, you have plenty of libraries which are low-cost and ready-made solutions. With Delphi, you have to license so many things to do something useful.
The dating sites (e.g., Brazil Latinas) are filled with woman (e.g., computer science graduates) skilled and proficient in Delphi looking for men in Europe or Canada (forget USA -- recession).
There's even the nanny and pre-school teacher websites filled with female Delphi developers who gave up their low-paying Delphi jobs to look after your children instead. One Delphi developer, Celina* took a job which she traveled to Brasilla from her home 2 days away to care for a rich jet-setting executive whose pregnant wife needed some extra help with tending their posh house and kitchen. She earns more money than she was doing coding in Delphi and being carefree and nothing to worry about.
Perhaps, Embaracdero should take note of the bread-winners and those who fight for the Delphi clause. Woman make up half the computer-sciences class and half the Delphi community. They are conspicuously absent.
Delphi dies when nobody wants to buy Delphi and Delphi-related products. Delphi dies when people move on in their life. Delphi dies when other languages offers better solutions and more competitive offerings.
Is Delphi in decline? Maybe the answer lies in the next generation: Many people in the Delphi community get married, have kids, their sons and daughters will soon finish school and start college. Which computer science course offers Delphi now?
* Not their real names; but sounds familiar.
Your correspondent looks with amusement over the uptick on activity from Delphi.
The combine and delete trick
They eliminated FreePascal, the legitimate alternative to the cash-hungry Delphi. So poof, Free-Pascal and "Object Pascal" community, which is completely different from Delphi gets merged into Delphi for the TIOBE Index. If FreePascal was made separate, the Delphi index would fall another 50 basis points.
Delphi does not matter
Delphi does not matter. Delphi's TIOBE index is lower than in 2004, Delphi's lowest point and prices are still sky-high. The high priests, the bishops and cardinals at the church of Embarcardero are more interested in membership gains (i.e., more people buying Delphi), encouraging developers to live by Delphi alone and sola-source-code, that is, pure 100% Delphi components and no adulterated ActiveX or COM objects.
The TeamB Cardinals encourage indulgences, which is, remission from Delphi by being pro-active in the Embarcadero forums, trolling developers who speak nasty things against Delphi, sacrificing their monies by giving generously to Delphi-related clauses.
A community in siege
Few days ago, there was almost 500 post reply about Delphi in Decline, generally insulting to the Brazilian community. The price of Delphi is so high, that many Brazilian Delphi developers came to the conference just for the Delphi discount at the end of the conference.
Embarcadero was not interested to improve the buying process: They still have to order from MicroFocus (formerly Borland) via old-fashioned Fax and cannot buy from USA, to by-pass expensive prices and taxes.
The Brazilian Delphi community, one of the biggest readers of this blog (besides Russia and Hong Kong) suffer from low wages and high prices. The problem stems from the high US$ to Brazilian Rael rates. Adobe and Microsoft sell Brazilian-only versions of their products at slightly lower prices (i.e., Juan* the Visual C++ and Jose* the Graphics Designer have good jobs).
Some of the Delphi Brazilians gave up their Delphi jobs and moved on. The pay is too low and too much work. You use PHP, you have plenty of libraries which are low-cost and ready-made solutions. With Delphi, you have to license so many things to do something useful.
The dating sites (e.g., Brazil Latinas) are filled with woman (e.g., computer science graduates) skilled and proficient in Delphi looking for men in Europe or Canada (forget USA -- recession).
There's even the nanny and pre-school teacher websites filled with female Delphi developers who gave up their low-paying Delphi jobs to look after your children instead. One Delphi developer, Celina* took a job which she traveled to Brasilla from her home 2 days away to care for a rich jet-setting executive whose pregnant wife needed some extra help with tending their posh house and kitchen. She earns more money than she was doing coding in Delphi and being carefree and nothing to worry about.
Perhaps, Embaracdero should take note of the bread-winners and those who fight for the Delphi clause. Woman make up half the computer-sciences class and half the Delphi community. They are conspicuously absent.
Delphi dies when nobody wants to buy Delphi and Delphi-related products. Delphi dies when people move on in their life. Delphi dies when other languages offers better solutions and more competitive offerings.
Is Delphi in decline? Maybe the answer lies in the next generation: Many people in the Delphi community get married, have kids, their sons and daughters will soon finish school and start college. Which computer science course offers Delphi now?
* Not their real names; but sounds familiar.
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It's just normal - companies sell to customers who can afford. We the bunnies found out what this is all about ...
We are not sure if this about the Rad Studio world tour ...
The Conference will deal mainly with Challenges for Growth: Innovation and Budgetary Discipline, the Euro and Challenges for the European Union, the role of Emerging Economies, Social Networks: Connectivity and Security Issues, New Challenges in the Middle East, Conflict Areas, Demographic Challenges, China, Switzerland: Can it remain successful in the future?
http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meeting_2011
Since when? 2009
http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings.html
I doubt in Brazil just normal people will have the power to buy Delphi again. Look at the Gini Coefficient. Poverty does not have something to do with Delphi or EMB in general.
The Paradox - Delphi is affordable for the 1% who write Software for the 99% (from the OS perspective). But young people implement on the 1% (from the OS perspective) for the 99%. So we could say, what remained from the Delphi community is just Skull % Bones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones
Wondering if the increase in sales was this big? Maybe the story about the unexpected growth is little flowery ... I think Mr. Allan's boss walked along the floor, Mr. Allen walked out of the door and his boss said, 'Can you imagine someone bought a box, this is more than we expected'.:) Serious. Of course there can be an increase and in the end an increase is always good ... since EMB took over Delphi the growth rate is possible, but the guy in the thread you mentioned was dreaming of an opportunity in Brazil, where many people switched to Delphi before ... I doubt they will switch back ... Pretty sure EMB is aware of this, that they will have to find new customers ... convincing 'divorced' customers does not pay. Lots of effort for little outcome.
We are the 1%.
In general, the price of a tool is not the point as long as it works ...
Because what do think would happen if the price for Delphi would be reduced? Those who provide the content - the third-party vendors would take the opportunity and raise the price.
VS is the same. The prices of the components are a lot higher in proportion to the tool price, but the sales opportunity is a lot higher, assuming there is a correlation between the number of tool licenses sold and the third-party sales. The exception is maybe Code-Jock.
If EMB is thinking of selling a lot more Delphi the one from Brazil who started the thread is right, but we believe the opportunity is a EDN Subscription ... for companies and of course working parts supplied, but it would be an opportunity to have a certain income stream and an extend test phase, before official release to broader public.
Same here in Bulgaria.
10 (or so) years ago Delphi was extremely popular. Now Delphi is considered a dirty word. For the same money you got the MSDN and rock with C#. Why the heck would you bother with the sky-high-priced Delphi... if you don't have some legacy code that is tied around your neck like a noose.
And yeah, there's no delphi jobs too.
This union was past due - so what's your problem? Delphi is so bad just because you don't have the money to buy your gear? Bla, bla.... only 0.1% of car owners are driving a Porsche... mi mi... so Porsche does not matter. Furthermore in your false logic Porsche is bad because you just can't afford it. For commies your logic seems to be right but for self-dependent people it is just ridiculous and grotesque.
You should think about your name of your blog. Delphihaters? Really? Ever thought about the fact that your name forbids any positive contents. So bashing is the only program?
I dont get it because most of your accusations in your blog are based on incomplete thoughts. Therefore they are epic failures in general. As a real delphi professional (since version 1) I can only smirk about your conclusions.
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