Evans Data Spring 2006 IDE developer survey lists Delphi first in several categories
The recent Evans Data Corporation Spring 2006 primary market research on IDEs listed Delphi first in several categories. The survey involved over 1200 worldwide developers. The survey takers were asked to rank IDEs according to sixteen features. The report lists the top eleven IDEs that were ranked. The list included Delphi, JBuilder, Eclipse, NetBeans,Visual Studio, IBM Rational Application Developer, IBM WebSphere Studio, Oracle JDeveloper, Sun Java Studio, Sybase PowerBuilder, and Adobe/Macromedia Studio 8..
Delphi’s was ranked first, second, or third in the following categories:
- Compiler/Interpreter - first
- Debugger - first
- Editor - third
- Make/Build - second
- Compiler Performance - first
- Performance of Resulting Applications - first
- Ease of Use - first
- Ability to Integrate Third Party Tools - third
- Availability of Third Party Tools - second
Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data Corporation, told me that "Delphi showed off the true excellence of the Borland toolset by ranking first in the all-important categories of compiler/interpreter and debugger, and in the top three for editor and make/build function." She allowed me to share page four from the full professional report showing the result and text for the Compiler/Interpreter feature category (PDF format).
You can download the free IDE scorecard from the Evans Data website. The IDE Professional survey is available for at a retail price is $79.95.
Additional survey information is available from Evans Data at http://evansdata.com/devchoice_ide_scorecard.php?s=edc
July 27th, 2006 at 12:33 am
Grats to Delphi, may the forth coming versions rate first in everything!
July 27th, 2006 at 4:08 am
Wow! Now you will find good investors in no time!
Hope you make the editor that much better that it will rank up first next time…
Johan
July 27th, 2006 at 7:28 am
Great news
July 27th, 2006 at 11:27 am
David, can you list all the categories and how Delphi placed? (Or should we shell out the $80? <G>)
July 27th, 2006 at 11:28 am
David, can you list all the categories and how Delphi placed? (Or should we shell out the $80? <G>)
July 27th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
That’s great. Which version of delphi was tested? What languages where tested? Was this first in the pascal language ide or general compiler?
July 28th, 2006 at 8:54 am
That’s a great news for all Delphier
I hope these results will convince more companies/Managers to take a look at Delphi and see how much they will benefit from that
August 7th, 2006 at 7:53 am
internet wirrless security
August 17th, 2006 at 1:09 am
No matter how hard Borland or Borland developers try, Delphi will not be the same Delphi again. Borland has abandoned its roots. Borland’s success was building extremely stable and beautiful products, adding new features in every new release, without changing GUI. Now, there is a Borland which emulates and follows Microsoft in every aspect. Once upon a time, Microsoft was following Borland. Now, the reverse is taking place. I was using Delphi since 1995, Turbo Pascal since version 3, but the new IDE is the worst among the old ones.
Thank you for your efforts. I had the best environments for coding in most of my development time.