TURBU Tech

A couple days ago, I got an email from a member of the AnyDAC dev team.  They make a set of professional data-access components for Delphi, and they’re looking for feedback and publicity.  They were willing to give me a free license, worth about $400, if I’d take the time to evaluate their components, provide some feedback and suggestions, and write up a few reviews on here.  Apparently they’re particularly interested in getting some focus on their in-memory dataset, DatS, which isn’t documented particularly well and doesn’t get used much.

So over the next few weeks, I’m going to be trying AnyDAC out and writing up what I find out.  In the interests of disclosure, I’m not under any sort of contract to do or say anything specific with it, just an informal agreement over email.  I received a free license for AnyDAC, but no money or other compensation.  I’ll take a look at their components, and especially DatS, and post on here about my experience with it.  I hope the AnyDAC people don’t think they’re getting paid advertising, because I plan to be honest and objective about the whole thing.  What I like, what I don’t like, what’s good and what needs improvement.  And if it turns out that I enjoy my experience, and something in my reviews causes some of my readers to buy some licenses, then maybe it’ll be worth it for them.  I guess we’ll see.