{"id":292,"date":"2005-02-03T15:56:38","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T13:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.0.2\/wordpress\/?p=292"},"modified":"2021-02-16T12:07:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T11:07:34","slug":"vs_net_vs_delphi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2005\/02\/vs_net_vs_delphi\/","title":{"rendered":"VS.NET vs Delphi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allen blogs about the Visual Studio versus Delphi debate. Quite an interesting piece of Borland propaganda, if you ask me. As I see it: Delphi is not Delphi anymore, it&#8217;s just Visual Studio with a Delphi (read: able to compile Object Pascal) core. What is left out of the equation is (and I have ranted about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2004\/12\/delphi-pascal-vs-c\/\">before<\/a>) the price. If you&#8217;re a one-man band (like I am) you will choose VS.NET because it&#8217;s cheaper, has more support for it&#8217;s price and it&#8217;s easier to get new (preview, early access, beta) material. If you&#8217;re a big company and you need a license for say 20 developers, it sure is a difference to shell out 20 times \u00803500 for Delphi (total 70,000 plus quite some more for support), or 5 times MSDN Universal (no need for every developer to have everything) and 15 times VS.NET Enterprise Architect (total of 5&#215;2800 + 15&#215;2500 = $51,500 ~ \u008040,000).<\/p>\n<p>What I miss in VS.NET? Live data at design time. That&#8217;s it. And Borland only has live data with their own dataproviders, and we all know that Borlands drivers are not known for their speed. Remember BDE?<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I have Borland Delphi 6 Enterprise, but I still don&#8217;t see why I need to shell out so much money for the upgrade to Delphi2005, when more and more (potential) clients are asking for C# programmers and I can have basically the same IDE (VS.NET) as FULL product for less than the Borland upgrade. How&#8217;s that for keeping your customers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen blogs about the Visual Studio versus Delphi debate. Quite an interesting piece of Borland propaganda, if you ask me. As I see it: Delphi is not Delphi anymore, it&#8217;s just Visual Studio with a Delphi (read: able to compile Object Pascal) core. What is left out of the equation is (and I have ranted <a href='https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2005\/02\/vs_net_vs_delphi\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,39,41,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-c","category-delphi","category-development","category-34-id","category-39-id","category-41-id","category-8-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","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=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}