George: Delphi 5 meets my needs very well as a hobbyist programmer. I have Delphi 5 Pro and still use the BDE (even with MS Vista). My biggest complaint is the file size. With every new version, it seemed like the EXE sizes grew with slower speeds. I suppose no one worries about that anymore with new computers.
Having said that, if you can purchase Delphi XE and get rights to earlier versions then it sounds like a great deal. I do know that when Embarcadero purchased Borland they no longer will give you an upgrade price any more. Tom Nesler -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@elists.org [mailto:delphi-boun...@elists.org] On Behalf Of Bob Swart Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 4:22 AM To: Moderated List for the Discussion of Delphi Programming excludingDatabase-related topics Subject: Re: Return to Delphi ? Hi George, > Should I just load Delphi 5 and go with it ? If it's only for a hobby, then this is the cheapest solution of course. > Get the new Delphi XE, cost 899.00 plus 270 for maint. This seems really > high to me, I get MSDN Professional and Delphi is higher ? Since you haven't upgraded Delphi since version 5, I wonder if subscription (what you call maintenance) is really needed for you, so it might be "only" 899. Note that after the (installation and) registration of Delphi XE, you can also get Delphi 2010, 2009, 2007 (non-Unicode) and Delphi 7 (very much like Delphi 5) for free. So you essentially get 5 versions instead of 1. There are still a lot of people using Delphi 7 (the classic IDE), or Delphi 2007 (the last non-Unicode version), so this is a very good deal if you're coming from Delphi 5 in my view. > George Groetjes, Bob Swart _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list Delphi@elists.org http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
