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w> Huan,

w> Interesting that you bring this up when you did. Actually? Through my
w> travels? I am finding that since Borland spun off the IDE development
w> applications to Code Gear? There has been a good rise and renewed
w> interest in Delphi. In fact, a couple of the technical schools here in
w> Washington State are actually including Turbo Delphi as a part of
w> their programming classes. I know because I have heard from the
w> instructors about job opportunities.

w> Now, Code Gear has been purchased by a large organization named
w> Embarcadero Technologies. I have already talked to the techs at Code
w> Gear? They are really excited. I have talked to a Senior VP at
w> Embarcadero and they are also excited to acquire Code Gear. The
w> roadmap for development is very promising. They actually see having
w> Delphi and the other Code Gear applications as a great compliment to
w> their other development tools.

w> For quite awhile? I would have agreed with you. Here in the U.S. the
w> number of programmers with Delphi experience was getting real low.
w> Delphi is more popular among developers in Europe than here in the
w> U.S. but I expect to see that change.

w> I am actually releasing a commercial application written in Delphi,
w> using Firebird on the back-end in about six weeks. The development has
w> gone great and the application has been well received by our user
w> community as well as the techs that support them. Frustration during
w> the development project? Sure! I am actually concerned more about
w> Firebird more than I am Delphi. My programmers and I find support to
w> be a bit of a challenge but as documentation improves we become more
w> independent.

w> Don't give up on Delphi... Make your feelings and concerns known to
w> Embarcadero Technologies. The more they hear from us, the better the
w> product will become.

w> Jack Wilson
w> Northwest Software...



w> --- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "ruan_h" <leohuanruan@...> wrote:

>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone knows what percentage of applications that
>> use Firebird are written in Delphi?
>>
>> I ask because I think Delphi's general usage is already shrinking and
>> I feel like it is only going to continue to do so. If Delphi does
>> continue to shrink I was wondering what effect that will have on
>> Firebird's growth.
>>
>> I work on a large system with millions of lines of Delphi code so we
>> need to consider where things will be in 3 to 5 years from now which
>> is why I am interested. We already are having a lot of problems
>> getting support for some Delphi code we have purchased from 3rd parties.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Huan
>>

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