{"id":1414,"date":"2013-05-02T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T22:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2013-05-03T07:30:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T19:30:57","slug":"its-a-good-time-for-nz-delphi-users-to-cross-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1414\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Good Time for NZ<\/del> Delphi Users to Cross-Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

Having lost our Delphi reseller in NZ last year, and with the Kiwi dollar riding high against the US dollar<\/a>, now is a good time to make purchases from online stores operating in US currency. RemObjects<\/a> has such a store and they also have a cross-grade offer for Delphi customers wishing to move over to the Oxygene product.
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\nRemObjects cross-grade deal for Oxygene<\/a>, including support for .NET, Android, iOS, Linux (via mono) is priced at just US$399.<\/p>\n

At current exchange rates, that’s a little over NZ$450 which is excellent value for money compared to the prices that Embarcadero are gouging<\/del> charging for the XE4 “upgrade”, especially when you add in the cost of the additional<\/em> “mobile add on”.<\/p>\n

This is even more impressive when you appreciate that for significantly<\/em> less than the price Embarcadero are charging for what is (despite their specious marketing claims) a hybrid iOS product (native code, non-native UI), in Oxygene you get a genuinely<\/em> “true native” solution not only for iOS and OS X but also<\/em> Android (and of course ,NET).<\/p>\n

That is, native code and<\/strong> native UI, and<\/strong> “first-class”, native access to each respective platform API’s.<\/p>\n

They don’t even mind if you want or need to do client\/server development and won’t charge you more for the privilege. How incredible is that ? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

UPDATE: <\/strong>In fact, as others have already pointed out, now is a good time to cross-grade for any\/all Delphi users in a lot of respects, not just those of us in NZ.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tomorrow I set off with my fianc\u00e9e on a 5 week holiday, first visiting her home country of Ukraine, before showing off my favourite parts of the UK to her (my first return visit since emigrating to NZ almost 8 years ago!). Upon my return I hope and expect to be renewed and refreshed, and intend throwing myself into some projects with Oxygene with concomitantly revitalised vigour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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