Re: DevExpress & D8

From: Ahmed (abamqadem_at_usa.net)
Date: 06/04/04 

Date: 4 Jun 2004 11:50:43 -0700

I am totally with you. I am planning currently to shift to C#.
It is more stable and it has alot of resouces.
I sepnd 1500$ on Delphi 8 just to play with it.
No one can depend on it for building commercial aplications.
Even my current applications developed by D7 are useless. I can't migrate them to D* because I depend on ADO Connections(dbGO).

I have to wait until D9 to do this migration.

D8 has a lot of bugs and it doesn't have usefull wizards like VS.NET 2003. In VS.NET 2003 you can develop a full application
with wizards. In D8 you have to depend on articles from borland staff or beta testers which are also few.
As you said search the internet and you will find alot of examples, articles, or bug fixes fro VS.NET 2003.
Also I read alot about VS.NET 2005, which well have a big effort and enhancements.
Microsoft approach is good. They publish every thing about thier products even when they are still in Alpha version.
By that you can partispate in building the final product.

The opposite, Borland they keep every thing about thier product secret. Even You don't know about its features.
When it come out you have to waite again for the update until you can build a meaningful application.

Sorry for that but this is the truth.
Goog for Microsoft. They took Delphi Achitiect and they made C#. So lets move to C# and don't waste our money on Borland.
After all Microsoft Win again.

 

zedd <nospam@for.me> wrote:
>> Since you have not much data to go by, but they do,
> > allow me to take your "take" with a bag of salt.
>
>For the general lack of D8 activity, the stats of DSP, DelphiPages,
>Torry, Delphi3000, DelphiSuperPages, Developpez, etc. speak
>for themselves.
>
>Even on CodeCentral, search for components Delphi 8 compatible,
>there are 50 matches only, just have a look at what they are...
>I didn't found more than a dozen that were referring to D8-based
>components -5 months after release- and most were quite trivial
>exemples.
>The same query for Delphi 7 yelds 327 results, of which a
>majority refers to D7-based components.
>
>Try performing a similar search on the aforementionned websites
>(or just look at the new releases lists), the results will be
>similar. That's no proof of low sales, but you'll at least have
>to admit this isn't a positive sign. It never happened before,
>even for the bug-ridden D4 release.
>
>Z

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