Re: Evaluating D2005, help needed.

Sting <Sting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Unless I can offer a good fix for these problems, I'll have no other
> choice to advise a change to Visual studio.

Why can't you just stick with what you have already been using? Does your
copy of D6 turn into a pumpkin at midnight? Or are you irreversibly committed
to .NET now?

Also...
In message <42e72bfa$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sting <Sting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> We can't upgrade all our machines to 1Gb or more (budget reasons).

I personally would find it painful to do serious development, particularly
..NET development, on machines that are limited to 512 MB. I don't think
Visual Studio is going to be very much fun on such limited machines either,
by the way. No matter what you choose, somebody there needs to wake up and
realize that less than $120 per developer [the cost of memory upgrades to 1GB
these days] is a small cost to pay to get the developers a comfortable
development environment. In fact, the unwillingness to invest even such a
small sum on the developers indicates to me that there are bigger problems to
be faced there than just the choice of dev tool, if I may be so bold.

I don't understand a decision-making process that refuses to spend $120 per
developer for memory but will recommend switching to a dev tool that costs
several times that, especially since your existing copies of D6 are probably
more than usable for (non-.NET) web development. I guess there must be a lot
of details you haven't told us.

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