In a follow-up to Perry’s post (again) I wonder: why should one buy Delphi 2005 instead of Visual Studio for .NET? A manager sees:<\/p>\n
Delphi 2005 Architect edition: $3000<\/em> (new user). Support is an optional product. Cheapest level includes only 3 incidents for 12 months (whatever comes first).<\/p>\n MSDN Universal: $2800<\/em> (new user) and that gives the user VS.NET Enterprise Architect, ALL Office applications (including previous versions for testing), LTU (albeit for development only) for all Windows OS-es, including pre-releases only available to subscribers, online support with a garantueed response of 2 days, 4 phone incidents)<\/p>\n If you or your company has a history with Delphi and you want to keep your existing codebase, I can see why Delphi 2005 is a logical step. If you’re choosing tools for a new project, I cannot see why one would not choose MSDN Universal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a follow-up to Perry’s post (again) I wonder: why should one buy Delphi 2005 instead of Visual Studio for .NET? A manager sees: Delphi 2005 Architect edition: $3000 (new user). Support is an optional product. Cheapest level includes only 3 incidents for 12 months (whatever comes first). MSDN Universal: $2800 (new user) and that […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,41,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-delphi","category-microsoft","category-5-id","category-41-id","category-45-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}