Kevin, Well Delphi and the other Borland developer products may well be "acquired" by outside interests as Borland themselves want to concentrate on other "non developer" tools but judging by the "turbo" range of products Delphi, C++, C# and Delphi for .NET which are free) http://www.turboexplorer.com/ it looks like they still have a future and are also aimed at the mass market -
"Like wot VFP should be!!" <BG> However, if there is one thing that is worse than dealing with VFP data via ODBC, it is dealing with data controlled by the Borland BDE which I absolutely hate which is the only down side I found with it! However, the Turbocash remains a good product and recommended. Dave Crozier -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Cully Sent: 14 February 2007 14:08 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] I've HAD IT WITH QUICKEN Dave, It looks like Delphi isn't going to be in production either. <g> That doesn't mean that Delphi or Turbocash won't be useful and productive for years into the future! I would think the main point of interest for developers on this forum is that their next accounting system is open enough that they could potentially extend the system, or access the data in such a way that they could create custom reports or make small enhancements. Via ODBC, I would think that the TurboCash data would be available to this extent. Thanks! Dave Crozier wrote: > Kevin, > Yes, Turbocash is written in Delphi and versions up to last September can > run when compiled with Kylix (The Linux fork of Delphi - which is no longer > in production however). I have installed a couple of systems and they went > in no problem with the addition of some bespoke code. > > The man modules are solid and well written but not completely embracing OOP > as they mainly follow procedural programming lines but good nevertheless. > > Documentation and end user support is excellent from the forums but my main > gripe was the number of updates which seem just too frequent for an > accounting system even though the mvast majority of changes are either > cosmetic or new features. > > Well worth a look though. > > Dave Crozier [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
