Critic's Guide to Delphi, Exorcist Edition Part 2

No young blood

The lack of young Delphi meant older developers are not teaching their skill to younger Delphi developers (because of poor job prospects and massive software piracy).

Few more years later, Delphi developers will grow so old they could retire or maybe RIP...  Some of the third-party software developers are retired (e.g., David Baldwin from http://www.pbear.com/) or passed away...

Every year, Mr. David I. would do his annual round the world tour. What's wrong with the world tour?

Reference: http://blogs.embarcadero.com/davidi/2010/08/30/40114/

This happens every year, from since Delphi 2006. Why the need for world tour? Why not train local leaders at the respective countries to give lectures? After the world tour, activity falls off the cliff.  Money would have been better spent grooming future leaders and new generation of Delphi developers - if that was possible.

Embarcadero's NewsgroupsWhen you connect to the Embarcadero's web-based newsgroup forum from FireFox, you always get the below error message. Maybe they use DataSnap or cannot seem to bother about security.

The Delphi Media Kit
If you paid Euros 4,000 you would expect to get a media kit. Atlas, it is sold separately...

or you could join the discussion.



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