Comments on: Odd timing

By: Mason Wheeler

Mason Wheeler — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:55:12 +0000

I guess we’ll have to see what happens.

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:04:45 +0000

They were supposed to publish 64-bits compiler preview in the 1st half of 2011, so I expected to have a compiler preview in the first quarter of the year, and then a new major version with cross-compiling features for Mac in September.

Now I am kinda worried that we might just get a bunch of Delphi XE bug fixes + another bunch of limited version of 3rd-party stuff + a preview of a command line 64-bits compiler, packaged all together as Delphi XE II ! Then a new Delphi Live conference with a new roadmap which defers everything just one more year! Maybe it is too pessimistic, but it is been a while I lost my faith in Embarcadero’s words or roadmaps and published schedules (if they ever have such a thing at all).

By: Kyle Miller

Kyle Miller — Thu, 26 May 2011 02:09:57 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. I renewed earlier this year. I don’t think I had that bullet point in my renewal e-mail.

By: Jolyon Smith

Jolyon Smith — Thu, 26 May 2011 02:01:40 +0000

Released, but in what state ?

Was Delphi 8 the first “release” of Delphi.NET, or was the Delphi.NET preview in Delphi 7 the first “release” ? They have said all along that there would be a 64-bit preview before any major product release. A limited beta doesn’t constitute a preview in my mind, not in the sense that a Delphi licensee might expect (given the Delphi.NET “preview” beastie that came before).

Perhaps I should stop drawing parallels with Delphi.NET…. we all know what happened to that in the end.

Maybe August is the preview release, but then to follow up with a full product release 1-2 months later wouldn’t seem plausible to my mind.

In any event, I’m not getting excited just yet.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:47:29 +0000

That’s interesting. I let me SA lapse last year amid all the talk about cross-platform etc, but only after asking my SA reseller and Emarcadero reps to tell me what was coming for the new release, wanting them to convince me to stay on SA, but I couldn’t even get an answer. Sounds like your SA email this year included at least one reason to stay on. What a great idea, give people a reason to stay on SA, who would have thought keeping your existing customers in the loop would have been a good idea. I am a KSDEV user too, now really kicking myself…