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Delphi 2010 – Cost & Manipulations

Wizard Software – Barely have I installed Delphi 2009 and Embarcadero are now touting Delphi 2010. Not only but also they are asking me to shell out an additional 2,229.00 Euros for an upgrade. Yes, you read that right, 2,229.00 Euros for an UPGRADE. I am astonished. I would very much like to give it a go but at those prices, how many developers out there can afford it? I recently downloaded MS Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition which Microsoft offer for FREE. Yep, free. And what else? Well, let me tell you, it ain’t that bad. It’s a few years since I touched C++ but a month of work with it should ...

Favorite? Off-Topic? Softy @ 2009-11-30 13:00