Re: International Pricing Policy

Actually I even would think of a complete different pricing policy. Wages
and income in countries as Poland, the Czech Republic and Latin America
are probably by far lower than in the US or Canada (*). Nevertheless the
prices there are even higher. Assume even selling Delphi in countries as
Nigeria or Guinea - the price of a licence would be as high as an average
yearly income. Unaffordable!

Viele Grüsse
Stefan Meisner


Thank god for open source.

The way I see it is that Borland/Codegear is pricing itself out of
existence, at least if they continue their current price policy.
Who cares about JBuilder nowadays, for example. Where was it a couple years
ago and where is it now?

I see the same thing happening to Delphi. The tool seems way overpriced for
what it delivers.
VC Express Orcas gets you generics, LINQ, ASP.NET, WPF for free. If you need
a database driver, you can get most of them for free (Oracle, Firbird,
MySql, Postgres). The list goes on and on.

I think the only way to survive for Codegear is to go for the mass market.
Which means they need to lower their prices significantly.

Another possibility would be taking a serious look at the business models of
MySql or Trolltech.



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