Delphi – Long Life, Good RAD!
Recently, a client asked me to put together a short document detailing why we are using a ‘dying’ programming language (Delphi) to implement their latest and greatest software solution. I’ve included that document below, just in case you need to convince any prospective clients:
Delphi – Long Life, Great RAD
“The Delphi development environment is dead, long live Delphi!”
The most popular global application written in Delphi is Skype. Its money worth is about $4.6 Billion. Skype invest heavily in Delphi development tools.
Delphi is used substantially by commercial software vendors. December 2008 – Fourteen of the top twenty applications listed at download.com are written in Delphi. Many commercial software products, both those in shrink-wrap at retail stores and those for vertical markets, are written in Delphi and will continue to be, because there are very few other good choices for developing high quality (polished) native Win32 GUI software.
Popular applications written in Delphi:
Skype
Yahoo TV
The Online Trader
Ad-Aware
Tune-Up
Webroot Spy Sweeper
Macromedia Captivate
http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Good_Quality_Applications_Built_With_Delphi
May 2008 - Delphi gets $53 million cash injection – bought by Embarcadero
Embarcadero acquire CodeGear, Borland’s Developer Tools Division for $23 + $30 million, creates the world’s largest, platform-independent software provider of database and application development tools.
http://www.codegear.com/about/news
February 2008 – Russian Government Order One Million copies of Delphi
The Delphi deal is part of a $100 million government initiative, the National State Project of High-Grade Education, which will add computer programming to public education curricula.
December 2008 –Delphi (RAD) Studio 2009 released
Delphi 2009 helps meet the challenges of the rapidly expanding global market, and expand the reach of global applications to more users.
http://www.codegear.com/products/delphi/win32
Embarcadero Technologies Inc. – Owners of Delphi, empower application developers and database professionals with tools to design, build, and run software applications in the environment they choose.
http://www.embarcadero.com/company/fact_sheet.html
Delphi (CodeGear) web site:
