Delphi personal edition
Louis Somers
(if any). Why does the CD cost $100 while it can be downloaded for free?
Thanks in advance,
Louis
Maynard Philbrook
you create with the
$100 version verses the one that only lets you play with it for your own
personal testing,.
Maynard Philbrook
you create with the
$100 version verses the one that only lets you play with it for your own
personal testing,.
John Kaster (Borland)
> What's the difference between the downloadable version and the CD version
> (if any). Why does the CD cost $100 while it can be downloaded for free?
There is no Delphi 7 Personal edition download planned. The purchased Delphi 7
personal edition includes the Delphi for .NET preview CD.
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borland.public.delphi.non-technical, where replies to this message go.
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Jeff Overcash (TeamB)
Maynard Philbrook wrote:
>
> the difference is that you can legally produce and sell your end product that
> you create with the
> $100 version verses the one that only lets you play with it for your own
> personal testing,.
>
Not true. Both versions are for personal non commercial use. D5 Std was the
last low end SKU that allowed commercial use for that SKU.
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gswork
> Louis Somers wrote:
>
> > What's the difference between the downloadable version and the CD version
> > (if any). Why does the CD cost $100 while it can be downloaded for free?
>
> There is no Delphi 7 Personal edition download planned. The purchased Delphi 7
> personal edition includes the Delphi for .NET preview CD.
That's a shame. The D6 download was very popular, as far I can tell
from anecdotal reports, and got a lot of people interested.
I understand a magazine cover disk issue with D6 personal was also
popular in the UK at least. Perhaps this also happened elsewhere.
It's always nice when a person can take a *personal* interest in
Delphi and translate that into a *professional* product purchase
somewhere down the line.
Don't know if the DL personal editions have resulted in notable sales
though.
gswork
>
> > What's the difference between the downloadable version and the CD version
> > (if any). Why does the CD cost $100 while it can be downloaded for free?
>
> There is no Delphi 7 Personal edition download planned. The purchased Delphi 7
> personal edition includes the Delphi for .NET preview CD.
That's a shame. The D6 download was very popular, as far I can tell
Rudy Velthuis (TeamB)
> the difference is that you can legally produce and sell your end product that
> you create with the
> $100 version verses the one that only lets you play with it for your own
> personal testing,.
Soory, but that is not true. Both come with the same license (the free
one, and the shipped one). But the shipped one has written docs.
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John Kaster (Borland)
> That's a shame. The D6 download was very popular, as far I can tell
> from anecdotal reports, and got a lot of people interested.
[snip]
As you say later in your message, the question is whether it got them
interested enough to purchase Delphi. Since the RAD group decided to not make
D7 Personal available for download, I would suggest that it did not drive
enough sales.
Follow-ups go to delphi.non-tech. Please use the default follow-ups that are
set for my replies. Thanks.
Marc Rohloff
made you would get:
a) Some .NET stuff like warnings (but not the .NET PReview compiler)
b) Some Multibyte stuff
c) XP Themes (for which you can get very similar components
free elsewhere)
WHat would be the point?
Marc Rohloff
marc rohloff at bigfoot dot com