{"id":496,"date":"2009-08-26T08:51:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T20:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2009-08-26T08:51:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T20:51:18","slug":"what-are-your-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/496\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Your Intentions?"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

As is being widely reported “on the wires<\/a>“, Delphi 2010 is now out in the wild. \u00a0I for one am interested to know how people will receive this release so I have devised a little poll running on this site for the next few weeks. \u00a0There is undoubtedly a lot of new stuff in the product as has been blogged about quite extensively over recent weeks, so I’ve started a little poll to gauge reaction in the form of purchasing (and usage) intentions.<\/p>\n

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It’s interesting that with each of the past two releases, the question of whether to upgrade or not has become increasingly complicated. \u00a0I think many people expected Delphi 2010 to be a no-brainer. \u00a0I know for a fact that for some the Unicode hump in Delphi 2009 was too great and offered no benefit and a lot of risk, and those people were waiting for the 64-bit support supposedly coming in Delphi 2010.<\/p>\n

Of course, with that now deferred to Delphi 2011 – at the very soonest – Delphi 2010 still represents little more than a Unicode hump, bringing too much work and too great a risk to consider. \u00a0And the 64-bit issue has been further clouded with talk of much broader cross-platform support.<\/p>\n

So as well as the intentions of the Delphi buying community, I – and I think many others – would appreciate a proper update to the Delphi Roadmap, so that we can be clear about where we are going.<\/p>\n

For the poll itself I have limited it to a single answer so I’m afraid you will have to choose the one answer that is most applicable<\/em> to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span> As is being widely reported “on the wires“, Delphi 2010 is now out in the wild. \u00a0I for one am interested to know how people will receive this release so I have devised a little poll running on this site for the next few weeks. \u00a0There is undoubtedly a lot of new stuff in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[292,78],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-80","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":498,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/498\/","url_meta":{"origin":496,"position":0},"title":"[tap][tap] Is this thing working?","date":"29 Aug 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"For some reason my two most recent posts don't seem to have been picked up by the DelphiFeeds aggregator. \u00a0Apologise to anyone who found my posts by other means. \u00a0I wouldn't normally be bothered except that I thought that those two posts were worth some attention. 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