Re: Captain Jake's Top Ten List of what I'd like to see inthenextversionofDelphi

I'm not sure about backwards compatible DCUs. But I have some feedback on how upgrade costs have affected us.

I've never thought the upgrades were substantial. I always weigh them
against how much time would it take to develop/maintain/test this
ourselves...

We started prototyping on our product with D4. Shortly after starting development, we upgraded to D5. After D6 came out, we upgraded again. Each of these were valued upgrades in our opinion. Today, we're still using D6 for our product.

When D7 came out, we looked at the new features vs the cost of the upgrade. This not only includes the cost of Delphi, but also the cost of upgrading our components. While we always by component source if available, we prefer to purchase an official upgrade rather than upgrade third-party source ourselves. Primarily because we don't know the complete internals of the third-party library and will likely miss something that should be changed for the new version.

We did purchase D8, but only because of the combination of the DataSnap licensing change and the bundled StarTeam license. We've never written a line of code using D8.

D9 was interesting. But stability seemed to be a major issue for users and we didn't think the benefits justified the costs, plus the concern about stability.

We're very excited about BDS 2006. There is a ton of new functionality that will benefit us and our users. However, we still haven't upgraded and converted due to the "cost", both time and money, to complete the upgrade.

Besides, approximately what overall cost are you looking at? 500? 1k? 3k?

Are you looking at a single developer shop or a multi developer shop? Remember that both Delphi and third-party libraries require per-developer licensing. Upgrading Delphi and a dozen third-party libraries can be quite expensive.
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