... WHY?
Many people encourage to upgrade due to bigger stability, features, etc... which is ok.
Yet, there're a number of reasons to wait for BDS 2007(or whatever it'll be called).
First of all: everything that is in 2006 will be in 2007. Thus, you lose nothing waiting.
Secondly: you don't get dotNET 2.0, which is not really a huge loss, you know, but
actually ASP.NET 2.0 looks nice.
Thirdly: you'll get all the goodies of 2007, too.
Fourthly: if you wait a year, you'll have time to save money and buy Software Assurance, too, which will take BDS 2008 too to your door, for free.
Doesn't seem a bad deal, to me.
All in all, if you don't really need it, just wait. Many peers I know are doing just fine with Delphi 2005, so why upgrade now?
Regards,
Andrew
2 comments:
The temptation to get it is killing me, but I'm going to wait until next year's version. The new stuff it does have would just be fun for me, but not gain me anything in what I'm really working on and money is short (just had our first child). First version I haven't purchased since starting with Delphi, but I'll consider my purchase of D8 (installed briefly and never used) as my donation to development costs...
Ron
Yes, of course, you're right but... why not to wait until 2008 then? Or 2009, 2010, etc.? With the reasons you explained, everythime is not the right time to buy a software license.
Don't you think so?
However I think you are right, it's better to wait, even if D2006 is sooooo cooool! But I wait just for a matter of money... sad but true!
And now, we can sit down and wait for other buyers impressions.
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