Let me explain: right now Delphi has become huge and three editions only probably
aren't enough. As it's been highlighted in the past, it's all about choices.
Fine then, please let me really choose. If I develop desktop applications for Win32, I'm
probably much less interested in dotNET - thus giving me ASP.NET is basically useless -
while it would be alot more interesting to get DataSnap, for example.
Give us an IDE at a very low cost(to allow young people to get started) . Let us choose à la carte what packages we want to buy, discount on bundles(if I get to buy stuff for - say - $600, you make me pay $500? That's for Borland to figure out, really).
There're several reasons to be willing to do this: first of all, as I said, three editions seem too few for the current choice of technologies. I can in fact split Delphi in at least these profiles:
- Delphi Desktop applications using Win32
- Delphi Desktop applications dotNET(which I don't think is good, but however...)
- Delphi Win32 Web Development using WebBroker
- Delphi Win32 Web Development using Intraweb
- Delphi dotNET Web Development using ASP.NET
- Delphi dotNET Web Development using IW for ASP.NET
- Delphi dotNET Compact framework applications
- Maybe I've missed a few
That's at least 7 different "profiles" and I probably missed a few, like Delphi
Win32 C/S developer and Delphi dotNET C/S developer. That's about 9 now.
Maybe more. By providing only three editions you're actually limiting my
choices rather than widening them.
Back in the Delphi 5 days, Borland offered ADOExpress as a separate package for purchase.
This could be done with ECO and other pieces as well.
Why not do it again, on the whole packages that are "worth it"?
Cheers,
Andrew
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