Re: Dev/2000 vs. Delphi. Any one here *knows* both to give us a comparison?

On Wed, 18 Sep 1996 02:01:31 -0700, Carlos Augusto Leite Netto <cnetto_at_bestway.com.br> wrote:

>......SNIP......
>
>All that strong position of Delphi and Intranet Borland Products
>(Latte, IntraBuilder) made me very curious. So... my questions:
>
>1) Do you have real experiences with Delphi? Is it really good? Or
> it's just better than VB? I don't know any Delphi user that's not
> a fanatic, but I head one bad story on Delphi. It's better to heard
> from high technical guys.
>
>2) What do you think on Oracle buying Borland? I think that L.Ellison
> will love to have one real VB killer in his hand :-). Delphi with
> Personal Oracle for Win 95 in a box?!
>
>Regards,
>
>Carlos Netto
>Software Design
>cnetto_at_softdes.com.br
>
>

I use Delphi 1 for a lot of my database programs as well as some technical work. I have been badly burnt with previous Oracle offerings (Oracle Card, Oracle Glue and very flaky original Forms 4) I like the database but feel that whilst a lot of the client stuff they do is very good they just cant get the user base you need to make it a viable product in the outside world.

The Delphi SQL Links is pretty good for connecting to Oracle and probably other databases and the local Interbase that Boralnd supply is good for developing simple to moderate systems.

I have used VB3 and 4 but once you use Delphi you wont want to go back.

All in all, Delphi aint perfect but it is pretty good and there is big advantages in maintainability if you have *all* your applications, database or otherwise produced by the same development system.

Oh and on the subject of Oracle buying Borland, I would say it is better than losing Borland but it is so much better to have Borland out there doing what it does best (at last) without becoming too tied down to one database or system.

Cheers

Sandy Cooper            Software Specialists
MOSSL                    Aberdeen
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