[From a friend who asked for advice on money]
Delphi was released on Valentine's day on 1995.
Your reviewer gives a humorous run down things Delphi developers might purchase over the years and suggestions what to do next...
From a different point of view:
Since majority of the Delphi developers on the newsgroups are men who are trying to find a Valentine and most of them are so broke they can't seem to save up any money to get hitched or married...
The twelve days ofChristmas Valentine
On the day before Valentine, my true love asked me to help pay for:
Delphi was released on Valentine's day on 1995.
Your reviewer gives a humorous run down things Delphi developers might purchase over the years and suggestions what to do next...
From a different point of view:
Since majority of the Delphi developers on the newsgroups are men who are trying to find a Valentine and most of them are so broke they can't seem to save up any money to get hitched or married...
The twelve days of
On the day before Valentine, my true love asked me to help pay for:
One Delphi XE Architect costing US$3,499.00,
IntraWeb Ultimate license costing E249.00,
RemObjects license costing US$399.00,
IntraWeb Ultimate license costing E249.00,
RemObjects license costing US$399.00,
DevExpress license costing US$1,499.00,
RaveReports Architect costing US$399.00,
WpTools Premium license costing E890,
LMD Complete license costing E349,
TMS Complete license at E695,
AlmDev mega life bundle at US$269,
12 Months of TDM WebHosting at 110 pounds per year
(and if possible, can you pay for the 2nd year renewals?)
(and if possible, buy a 12month subscription the to Pascal Blaise Magazine?)
RaveReports Architect costing US$399.00,
WpTools Premium license costing E890,
LMD Complete license costing E349,
TMS Complete license at E695,
AlmDev mega life bundle at US$269,
12 Months of TDM WebHosting at 110 pounds per year
(and if possible, can you pay for the 2nd year renewals?)
(and if possible, buy a 12month subscription the to Pascal Blaise Magazine?)
... and I told my friend to asked her boyfriend to cut his credit card and go for debt counseling, then tell him to learn Visual C++ and ASP.NET and realize there is a wonderful life after Delphi. I told my friend if her boyfriend can't seem to pay the bills and get the latest [tools], then her boyfriend should stop the Delphi delusion.
4 comments:
Reviewer - you know Paul Simon's Song "50 ways to leave your lover"? One such way surely is to tell your friend that you want her to stop having fun and to start to program in C++ instead in Delphi.
Which is better -
you want to help pay for debt upon debt ...
or want to end the vicious cycle of debt?
or rather, can you help some of the people on the newsgroup get more money? some of them, strangely, are not married since 1995.
Hi Mike,
how are you?
The problem is not so simple and mixed...
You should see my complaints to Oracle, SAP, InstallShield Corporation, Citrix, and many other companies.
I should write of them when I have time.
Yeah, I got kicked out of one vendor's forum last week because I posted a massive 20-page bug list to them.
Got any company you'd like to mention by name?
Drop me an email and I'll see if any of them matches my list and if there's one with a massive bugs list, I'll write it here...
For instance,
Dealing with Oracle:
Your reviewer was annoyed by getting a simple sales quote for Oracle database.
How many salesman/ consultants does it take to get a quote?
It states: Phone a number on the Oracle website, leave a message, but nobody replies. Maybe it was December, so people were on leave, or maybe not-so-busy time.
Later, we called again, got an operator who asked us to leave a message. I replied with our company, phone-number to call and asking for a quote.
One week pass by, the operator says the person who we were assigned to, was on leave and back on Friday.
On next week, Monday, nobody replied. We called on Tuesday and was informed that the person who was supposed to give us a quote resigned and someone was going to give us a quote but was overseas and back on Friday.
On next week, Monday, nobody replied. We called up asking what's going on and tried to get a quote. We got a figure of around Euros 45,000 but -- if we sign-up as an Oracle partner, we could get a massive discount and other benefits.
There was five kind of Oracle partners and five kinds of plans with different benefits and costs.
Later, the person we were assigned to left for Australia for a short trip and would meet us personally.
Then came the flood in Australia and we're still waiting for a sensible quote.
Go figure....
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