Comments on: Release Date for Delphi 2009 Announced

By: Allogsnal

Allogsnal — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:27:23 +0000

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By: Marka

Marka — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:02:50 +0000

I fully agree with FX.
If prices for full product version would be the same as for upgrade prices, and upgrade would be just $100 less,
there would be a huge success for Delphi 2009.

By: randy

randy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:52:19 +0000

I really want to know , as long as the Delphi 2009 is fully unicode Support , Why some Important Components are not Right To Left Align like TListView and TreeView ( Cause some languages are written from Right To Left Like Arabic , Thai … etc ) So normaly the Delphi 2009 is fully Right To Left Align Support as it supports Unicode .

Regards Randy

By: Nirav KAKU

Nirav KAKU — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:02:30 +0000

Have been with Delphi since 2.0. It was great then… it’s great now. I don’t think people realise the mkt for the product in the Indian subcontinent. Low price barrier and active training can do wonders for Delphi in INDIA.

Nirav

By: Tejasvi Hegde

Tejasvi Hegde — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:43:48 +0000

If anyone from Embarcadero listening, I would suggest to keep the price tag of $399 for new license and have a special pricing i.e. $199/$299 for upgrades (if no free upgrade).
If this low pricing strategy is used, I am damn sure that this year there will be at least 50% increase in sale of Delphi, apart from keeping existing users happy and loyal.

Another most important factor is to keep the IDE light, simple but powerful and (almost) bug free (as this is one of the key factor of VS IDE). All releases of Delphi after Delphi 7 are heavy and buggy IDEs and users are upset.

There is high hope among developers that Embarcadero will make things better, hope this will become true.

By: mkinzler

mkinzler — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:20:40 +0000

[quote="Ray"]Please ask nick about Delphi support for silverlight.[/quote]
[Quote="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Embarcadero-Plans-New-Delphi-CBuilder-Releases/"]The releases also feature a new capability known as VCL for the Web, which enables developers to build AJAX and Silverlight-enabled rich intranet and line-of-business Web applications

By: Jim McKeeth

Jim McKeeth — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:09:53 +0000

I actually just interviewed Nick today for the Monday podcast, and he said that is the upgrade price. It will be available for orders on Monday, shipping a bit after that.

By: FX

FX — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:05:39 +0000

The article says $399 for Delphi 2009 Professional. Is this for new users or is it the upgrade price?

If it is the new user price, then I think Delphi 2009 will have a huge boost in sales.

After all, $399 vs free (Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Express) is easier than $899 vs free…

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:02:37 +0000

Please ask nick about Delphi support for silverlight.
thanks

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:29:16 +0000

The Architect version is new if you compare with Delphi 2007 (Delphi Standalone without C++): For these editions, there was no architect edition.
So Architect is really new for Delphi-Standalone and thus for Delphi 2009…