Your reviewer have several friends, who, recently got laid off, or got out of job.
Your reviewer tells story of one developer -
Some introduction towards T., T. was using Delphi since TurboPascal days, most probably TurboPascal 7.0, and then brought Delphi 6.0 Enterprise. Euros 2000+. He was one of those people who fought valiantly against the trolls, defender of the Delphi faith. Year 1999, things were good...
From 1999 - 2009, things went downhill. Delphi 5/6/7 were considered last "good" version of Delphi before Delphi 8 (or Delphi.NET ruined everything), T brought Delphi 8, sent few thousand Euros to Borland, for some pie-in-the-sky software which, Julian Bucknall said Delphi 8 was the "worst" version of Delphi on his blogs, and for simple programs (to be fair, I wonder if Rudy V. used Delphi 8 extensively?), then more money on Delphi 2005, then more money on Delphi 2006, then more money on Delphi 2007, then Delphi 2009, then went bust when Delphi 2010 came out.
T. always lamented about the shabby state of Delphi, how he wanted to use Delphi instead of Visual Studio, but seemingly, had to license out MSDN to use Visual Studio. IntraWeb was so unprofessional, T. gave it up, after struggling to make good website using Delphi.
Component vendors would hand out components by subscriptions, further sucking any extra money T. had. Renew another year for DevExpress, RemObjects, TMS or RealThinClient? no more money left...
T. was trying to find Delphi jobs, or rather, what Delphi jobs in Europe? In his place, T. the nearest Delphi job was in some far away part of (country) inside the European Union, or had to travel 20+ miles., or maybe the money was not enough. If he had to live in some other city to find a Delphi job, then rent would eat up costs, and with this recession going on, there was no finding a decent Delphi job.
Contract jobs sucked because the customer expected more and more work for less and less money. His jobs were "handed-over" to those cheap Indian Delphi developers who don't give a damn about Quality.
T. was sad he could no longer get Euros 4,000-a-month he used to get when he was full-time employed. T. was also sad he gout out of work after his company closed down.
T., used to work for a company which used Delphi, then that company closed down, let everyone go.
T. survived on his unemployment benefits, desperately looking for a Delphi job, but there were no Delphi jobs that paid Euro 48,000 he used to get. Also, trying to license Delphi meant buying Delphi Enterprise (for himself) and many libraries.
Last month, T. unemployment benefits ran out and he started to beg for jobs, or anything that goes by. Eventually he found a non-programming job, doing sales for some "bookstore club" in Europe.
It didn't make sense anymore to touch Delphi, since prices skyrocketed such that even mere mortals like T., could no longer afford to license Delphi (and all those libraries), each year meant annual renewals, so, since this year is recession, how to make money to cover next year, except to cancel credit cards?
As I lament for my friend, I could do nothing to help him, I felt so helpless, only to give him moral support every now and then. I don't know, I wish T., well on his new career., and hopefully, that others too, may learn from his tearful lesson.
DelphiHater is one of T's best friends, even giving money to support him, but with this economy, DelphiHater could not even give him much.
DelphiHater wrote this, not because right or wrong, but also, as many successes there are, there are also stories of failure.
Your reviewer tells story of one developer -
Some introduction towards T., T. was using Delphi since TurboPascal days, most probably TurboPascal 7.0, and then brought Delphi 6.0 Enterprise. Euros 2000+. He was one of those people who fought valiantly against the trolls, defender of the Delphi faith. Year 1999, things were good...
From 1999 - 2009, things went downhill. Delphi 5/6/7 were considered last "good" version of Delphi before Delphi 8 (or Delphi.NET ruined everything), T brought Delphi 8, sent few thousand Euros to Borland, for some pie-in-the-sky software which, Julian Bucknall said Delphi 8 was the "worst" version of Delphi on his blogs, and for simple programs (to be fair, I wonder if Rudy V. used Delphi 8 extensively?), then more money on Delphi 2005, then more money on Delphi 2006, then more money on Delphi 2007, then Delphi 2009, then went bust when Delphi 2010 came out.
T. always lamented about the shabby state of Delphi, how he wanted to use Delphi instead of Visual Studio, but seemingly, had to license out MSDN to use Visual Studio. IntraWeb was so unprofessional, T. gave it up, after struggling to make good website using Delphi.
Component vendors would hand out components by subscriptions, further sucking any extra money T. had. Renew another year for DevExpress, RemObjects, TMS or RealThinClient? no more money left...
T. was trying to find Delphi jobs, or rather, what Delphi jobs in Europe? In his place, T. the nearest Delphi job was in some far away part of (country) inside the European Union, or had to travel 20+ miles., or maybe the money was not enough. If he had to live in some other city to find a Delphi job, then rent would eat up costs, and with this recession going on, there was no finding a decent Delphi job.
Contract jobs sucked because the customer expected more and more work for less and less money. His jobs were "handed-over" to those cheap Indian Delphi developers who don't give a damn about Quality.
T. was sad he could no longer get Euros 4,000-a-month he used to get when he was full-time employed. T. was also sad he gout out of work after his company closed down.
T., used to work for a company which used Delphi, then that company closed down, let everyone go.
T. survived on his unemployment benefits, desperately looking for a Delphi job, but there were no Delphi jobs that paid Euro 48,000 he used to get. Also, trying to license Delphi meant buying Delphi Enterprise (for himself) and many libraries.
Last month, T. unemployment benefits ran out and he started to beg for jobs, or anything that goes by. Eventually he found a non-programming job, doing sales for some "bookstore club" in Europe.
It didn't make sense anymore to touch Delphi, since prices skyrocketed such that even mere mortals like T., could no longer afford to license Delphi (and all those libraries), each year meant annual renewals, so, since this year is recession, how to make money to cover next year, except to cancel credit cards?
As I lament for my friend, I could do nothing to help him, I felt so helpless, only to give him moral support every now and then. I don't know, I wish T., well on his new career., and hopefully, that others too, may learn from his tearful lesson.
DelphiHater is one of T's best friends, even giving money to support him, but with this economy, DelphiHater could not even give him much.
DelphiHater wrote this, not because right or wrong, but also, as many successes there are, there are also stories of failure.
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