Re: What can .Net do for me?
- From: "Wayne Niddery [TeamB]" <wniddery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 19:14:49 -0400
Linda Scherzer wrote:
> I'm looking for a business reason to upgrade to Delphi 2005.
>
> OK, so .Net is M$'s idea of the future. But what added functionality
> does it give my Delphi 6 applications?
>
> At this point I'm not asking about the benefits to me the developer. I
> need benefits to a customer's company and users.
You've already got a lot of replies, but I'll add mine anyway.
The answer is solely dependent on what new features or abilities your
clients are asking for or you know they could use. However, in general,
there is no need, and certainly no hurry, to rewrite your entire existing
application(s) just so you can "keep up with the Jones". For example, I have
a major app/customer still in D6 and, at least for the forseeable future, it
will stay there. At some point that client may decide it's time to revamp
the user interface, the database schema and backend, etc, (i.e. a rewrite is
justified anyway) and at *that* point, I will advise them that it should be
done all in .Net, but not before.
I've just acquired a new client where they have decided just that - it is
time for a rewrite of their existing app (done in D4) for various internally
generated reasons, and it will be done in .Net.
If you are contemplating any major new modules, then you may certainly want
to consider doing those in .Net. If those new modules need to communicate
directly with existing apps, then that can be done via web services (SOAP) -
you will be much more productive creating the web services in .Net, and your
existing app can be made to communicate with them (though more work in
Win32). If you need web apps, then ASP.Net is also worth using - it can
share the same web services if you create those, and for ASP.Net only the
server needs .Net, not the client (browser) computers.
--
Wayne Niddery - Logic Fundamentals, Inc. (www.logicfundamentals.com)
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Light is faster than sound, which is why some folks appear bright
before they speak.
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