Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today
by antaviana on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:07AM
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I remember reading that a former Borland or Embacadero CEO said that he absolutely preferred having 99 $1M customers that 1M $99 customers.
I think that enterprise-first strategy has dried up any chances for a community to exist.
We use primarily use Delphi for productivity reasons and think that unless they change their go to market approach, chances of a community reappearing are low.
Perhaps after they have already completed milking enterprise customers, they try to switch to a model of $99/year subscription-only model with a single high quality IDE product and then a community suddenly reappears.
I think that enterprise-first strategy has dried up any chances for a community to exist.
We use primarily use Delphi for productivity reasons and think that unless they change their go to market approach, chances of a community reappearing are low.
Perhaps after they have already completed milking enterprise customers, they try to switch to a model of $99/year subscription-only model with a single high quality IDE product and then a community suddenly reappears.