Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today
by acqq on Thursday February 14, 2019 @09:03PM
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https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter
"If you're a small company or organization without revenue (or up to $5,000 per year in revenue), you can also use the Delphi Community Edition. Once your company's total revenue reaches US $5,000, or your team expands to more than 5 developers, you can move up to an unrestricted commercial license with Professional edition."
Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today
by wila on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:51AM
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If your team is over 2 developers and you don't have a revenue of $5k then I don't think you will be in the market for long.
In other words, CE only caters to students and those will not invest their time in a dying platform if they are smart.
Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today
by distances on Friday February 15, 2019 @10:00AM
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Or hobbyists. Personal projects don't need to bring in money.
Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today
by moron4hire on Thursday February 14, 2019 @10:35PM
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$5,000/yr revenue is not a lot. I made more than that my first year freelancing in highschool. All I did was write HTML (in Notepad).
The target customers for the paid editions obviously are developers of custom line of bussines applications. And in that case the license cost is somewhat justified, as the IDE and it's libraries are essentially directly usable for that, while everyone developing similar things in notionally free of charge Visual Studio is going to buy DevExpress and ReSharper.