Re: Is it time for a Delphi algorithms group?

From: Eric Grange (egrangeNO_at_SPAMglscene.org)
Date: 12/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:41:10 +0100

> I done this only because it is you, Eric.

Thanks :)

Just per chance, you wouldn't happen to have a thousand
euros handy too? ;)

> monotype
> CppBuilder JBuilder Delphi Kylix
> 1995 - - - -
> 1996 - - - -
> 1997 12,7 5,3 29,2 -
> 1998 44,7 29,7 44,4 -
> 1999 60,7 34,4 61,1 -
> 2000 80,9 57,8 78,7 0,3
> 2001 111,0 75,8 110,0 32,3
> 2002 121,0 41,5 213,0 11,7
> 2003 122,0 18,9 399,0 5,6
> 2004 56,1 12,9 246,0 2,9
> total 609,1 276,3 1.181,4 52,9
> anytime 580,0 265,0 1.730,0 64,3
> lastyear 58,1 13,5 259,0 3,1

Now that's interesting, personal analysis:

Apparently JBuilder started withering in 2001-2002, but according
to reports, financial hit of similar magnitude occured only a year
or two later. In a few years, chances are it'll have disappeared
from Borland products lineup.
The CPPB trend indicates that by not issuing new releases, Borland
pretty much slaughtered the goose as it used to follow the Delphi
curve nicely, insufficient compiler improvements probably did the rest...
wether or not the recent announce will be able to revive it is
anybody's guess.
Delphi's curve seemingly hit a wall in 2004, which broke its almost
geometric curve so far. If JBuilder behaviour repeats, Borland won't
feel the actual pain in their sales before 2005-2006, should D2005
fail to fix what was broken.
Finally Kylix never really caught, is now pretty much buried
and forgotten.

Quite instructive overall, if not that surprising for those of us
who followed the whole story. It's interesting to see that the product
Borland was almost ashamed off and hid in the bowels of their site,
with no incentives for the sales force and marketing, is the only one
with life in it. I guess more detailed statistics of the first months
of 2005 will be able to tell us if D2005 will help a rebound or just
fizzle out.

> There is something strange in google making sum of years
> different than anytime, +29K in Cpp and -550 for Delphi.

Total matches the years' totals, I'm not sure what "anytime"
means to google, maybe it's just a quick estimation of the record
count, while total and other figures are the actual count?
(IIRC google does something similar with websearches, the hit
count it gives in the first search is only an estimate).

Eric

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