Instant Delphi 2007 Download!
I blogged yesterday about one of my favorite new features of Delphi 2007 for Win32; Delphi’s new installation architecture. One of the really cool things about the new installer technology is that it enables us to do “instant” eCommerce downloads for Delphi new user or upgrade purchases. In the olden days you could purchase Delphi electronically from resellers, however what you got was actually a full ISO image that you burned and installed from CD or installed from a virtual CD installer… ack. That also meant a massive download before you could even begin to think about clicking “Install”. Suffice to say it was not a very popular way to purchase Delphi. Times have changed! Now you can purchase Delphi 2007 electronically (called ESD for “electronic software delivery”) and you will receive your license key and a nice lightweight installer that is about the size of a decent MP3 song (<5mb)! You run the setup, choose which features you want to install, and the setup will pull down all the packages it needs down from the Web and away you go! Instant Delphi gratification! It does cache the install packages on your harddisk in case you ever need to reinstall and will pull down add’l “features“ from the web if you choose new options later. The ESD version of Delphi is priced about $25 less than DVD version, but you can also order the DVD Media Kit just for the difference, so you can get Delphi instantly - no waiting for the fedex or UPS truck to deliver your Delphi 2007 - and still have a backup DVD and case shipped to you all for the same price as the regular DVD edition. I’ve purchased several popular graphics and illustration products this way the past few years and it’s really convenient. Oh forgot to mention that the installation technology is powered by InstallAware (also written in Delphi!) and we’re now including InstallAware Express Edition with Delphi 2007 for Win32!
Here’s what it looks like when you order ESD with the optional DVD media kit: 
You can see from this screen that it automagically added the support and maintenance subscription - which you can remove if you don’t want it, but it’s an excellent deal. Here’s how it works. If you add support and maintenance to your new or upgrade license and you receive
And it’s renewable each year for the same price (in this example $360 yr) so you don’t have to repurchase a new upgrade license each time, just keep the support and maintenance subscription current.
You can preorder Delphi 2007 for Win32 today - it is expected to be available very soon so if you order the ESD version you can be installing the latest Delphi within minutes of Delphi 2007 going “gold“.
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March 13th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
I ordered tonite before i saw this! Any way to easily change it to ESD? Any help would be appreciated!
March 13th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
sorry this should have contact
March 13th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Send me an email with order details. I’ll also follow up with you on email. We’ll figure something out.
March 14th, 2007 at 1:19 am
Is this a Canada and USA only thing?
March 14th, 2007 at 1:27 am
you mention that the "support and maintenance advantage" is
[Access to all product updates and upgrades released during the term of the agreement - for Delphi 2007 for Win32 this includes any Delphi or C++Builder single language or Studio release of the same edition level as well!]
Does this mean that purchasing support and maintenance entitles me to Borland Delphi Studio 2007 when it is released?
March 14th, 2007 at 1:34 am
This is great news, but I have two questions:
1. How does it work if you purchase more than one license? Several license key emails with one download that caches the files for use on other workstations?
2. What about existing Software Assurance customers? Can we also go to the website and get the download, or should we still wrestle to local representatives to get it?
March 14th, 2007 at 1:37 am
>>> Does this mean that purchasing support and maintenance entitles me to Borland Delphi Studio 2007 when it is released?
Yes, the subscription covers the Studios for each edition level and individual products contained in the Studio line. So adding maintenance for Delphi 2007 Pro covers you for Studio 2007 Pro as well provided it ships within the year you are on maintenance (it’s planned for mid year).
March 14th, 2007 at 1:43 am
1. How does it work if you purchase more than one license? Several license key emails with one download that caches the files for use on other workstations?
You’ll receive a license key for each license purchased, and you should/can d/l and run the setup.exe for each workstation and let each pull down it’s needed packages - however you "could" install on the 2nd workstation from the 1st workstations cache and just use the other 2nd license key - Nick mentioned to me today that he was going to blog about how to do this - even how to make your own dvd backups from the caches if you like.
2. What about existing Software Assurance customers? Can we also go to the website and get the download, or should we still wrestle to local representatives to get it?
You’ll need a license key either way, so i would think d/l and web install will be the way to go. I’ll check.
March 14th, 2007 at 1:47 am
>> Is this a Canada and USA only thing?
It’s world wide. ESD should be available from the US, Canada, Latin America, ANZ, UK, France, Nordic, Italy, Spain, and German CodeGear eShop sites, and all CodeGear resellers worldwide should also be able to provide ESD editions as well.
March 14th, 2007 at 6:53 am
You means that Delphi 2007 already ships ?
March 14th, 2007 at 7:30 am
Is it still possible to download also full Delphi 2007 ISO image (w/o lightweight installer)?
March 14th, 2007 at 9:00 am
One of the points under the purchase of Support and Maintenance is "Access to all product updates and upgrades released during the term of the agreement …".
This statement implies to me that purchasing Delphi 2007 and not including SA means that I am not entitled to anything from that point forward. For upgrades to the product [you are releasing Delphi 2008] I can understand this. For updates, due to minor changes, I find this a little hard to swallow.
A lot is being said about what you get with SA and not enough about what you get without it … my shopping cart has what I can afford in it and that’s as far as it will go until I understand _exactly_ what I’m paying for and will get with my purchase.
Looking forward to hearing from you … and clicking on "Proceed to Check-Out"
Many thanks,
Dave
March 14th, 2007 at 10:14 am
>> Delphi 2007 already ships ?
As of this morning Wednesday March 14th it’s not yet shipping. But we expect that it will be shipping soon.
March 14th, 2007 at 10:17 am
>> Is it still possible to download also full Delphi 2007 ISO
The only ESD version for 2007 is the web installable version. It’s also exactly the same installer that is on the DVD. However if you purchase the ESD version and run the setup with all options turned on, you’re going to get everything that would have been on the ISO anyway. You could even burn that to DVD if you like (Nick has said he’s going to blog on how to package up the downloaded parts onto DVD).
March 14th, 2007 at 10:21 am
>> For updates, due to minor changes, I find this a little hard to swallow.
without SA you are still entitled to hotfix and patch updates, as always - infact Delphi now has an update manager that will alert you when one is available and d/l and install for you. With SA you are also entitled to upgrades (such as 2008 for example) if they are released during your SA subcription period.
March 14th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Michael, that explains it … I’m guessing that it’s semantic confusion in the difference between a hotfix, a patch and and updates [upgrade is pretty straight forward as it usually involves a major version name/number change].
Many thanks … time to Check-Out
March 14th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Oh yea, thanx for the tip on DVD Media Kit it’s something I like to get … bought one of those too.
March 14th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Maybe I’m slow, but I don’t understand the value of SA… For example, if I had purchased SA when I bought BDS 2006 when it came out (~december 2005?), it would have entitled me to a year of free upgrades and some support assistance. Well, I didn’t need any support*, and no upgrades came out for a year, so I would be out my $360, and have to pay another $360 for another year to get any upgrades that might come out. Or, I could do what I did, just buy the software, and pay about the same as a one year SA contract to upgrade when the next BDS actually drops. So what’s the advantage? Is the next BDS upgrade cost going to skyrocket?
March 14th, 2007 at 11:47 am
*what does a Support Incident entail? Do you just help me work through a problem if it’s on my end, or will you actually fix things on your end? For example, if I’m running into problems due to a bug in BDS, will you work with me until you fix it, or am I out of luck? If you’ll actually fix bugs (even simple ones, like the shift+F11 hotkey being mapped wrong under VS emulation), then I see the value in SA. If not, how about opening up your bug/feature database to bidding… I’d happily throw some more cash your way to get specific issues resolved. That way, CodeGear will make more money, and they’ll see which issues their customers really want resolved.
March 14th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
>> Well, I didn’t need any support*, and no upgrades came out for a year,
Having the support incidents on hand are useful, especially when you need them, but if you don’t need them, you don’t need them. In the case of BDS2006 it really depends on when you purchased it, those who purchased in the middle of last year are receiving Delphi 2007 for Win32 for no add’l cost covered under their SA, if they subscribed to SA in November of last year, then they are getting Delphi 2007 for Win32, and will also likely get C++ 2007, and Studio 2007 provided they all ship before November. We also plan to release smaller upgrades more frequently than the 1yr plus it’s been since the last major upgrade. The subscription is really about an annual subscription that gets you anything we release in that product line for that year, and support if you require it - even if we release only 1 upgrade product it should be less than the price of an upgrade license. If this doesn’t seem like a good value to you, then upgrade licenses are still available and would be your best bet.
March 14th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Hi Michael,
Is there any news if the Turbo Delphi 2006 to Delphi 2007 Win32 Upgrade pricing is finalised or when It will be finalised ?
March 15th, 2007 at 5:18 am
Nice work. This may be my favourite thing I’ve heard about the new version so far.
-d
March 15th, 2007 at 5:19 am
Nice work. This may be my favourite thing I’ve heard about the new version so far.
-d
March 15th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Hi Michael
It is a little unclear as to whether customers already on SA can download the ESD version.It also seems that this facility is not available in all countries viz India
Can you throw some light on this.Lot of Indian customers are upset that ESD is not available in India.I have told this to CodeGear rep in India too
March 15th, 2007 at 10:07 am
>> Is there any news if the Turbo Delphi 2006 to Delphi 2007 Win32 Upgrade
They’ve finalized it internally and are creating the "SKUs" and pushing it thru the pricing systems -> ie has to go into our order entry systems and out to dozens of eCommerce sites and many many resellers. Nick said it should be out there soon.
March 15th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Thanks very much for the feedback info Michael !
March 15th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Can you explain how you come up with your exchange rates?
I am in Australia, and I would save $80 by purchasing direct from the US.
Also the price of the ESD to Australia would be on par with the cost of packaged in US (using exchange rates you have used). So there’s an anomaly there too.
Maybe I’m just too tight
March 17th, 2007 at 9:33 am
this is all great but if there are no instructions where to get the files downloaded by esd and how to groom the files for dvd, i won’t like esd at all! i can see them in my internet cache but have no hope to be sure i have everything needed to make the cd.
my grade on 2007 so far:
installation: A (except that i don’t have what i need to make the dvd)
d2007 startup time: A (now i can retire my d5)
can’t get really using it yet because the jcl/jvcl isn’t ready for d2007 yet.
March 17th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Hi Mike. Thanks for the feedback. We’re going to follow up with instructions on how to back up the download cache or make a DVD from it. FYI - when you uninstall it also wipes out the cache. So backing it up is a good idea. We’re also looking at adding an ISO d/l to the media kit option.
March 17th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
thank you for your response.
i’ve been thinking about this more and i feel that in the "ESD hysteria" at codegear, the customer’s interests have been neglected. it has been portrayed as an easy thing to make the dvd.
i think there’s a serious risk that the dvd will be invalid for some reason (missing file, wrong file name, etc), in which case i have a potentially very serious problem.
since the only test is an install and it’s a whole slew of files, my only smart choice is to go back and order the media kit. yeah, that’s something else i need to do.
these things considered, i think it’s not ethical for codegear to make the media optional!
March 17th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Mike - it’s not really a feature for you to make the DVD, it’s just something that Nick has said that he intends to post about how to do. It wouldn’t be a supported way to install. However, we do want to create a way that you can create backups from ESD to reinstall locally without requiring the setup to pull the files down over the internet again. That said, you can simply reinstall over the web if ever needed. But we want to make a nice way for you to do back ups for convenience and piece of mind. Back up media kits are a convenience item that we are offering so you can have the best of both worlds, and the price is exactly the same… no add’l in the total than if you’d purchased the boxed ver. It really is customer driven. Many customers don’t want the DVD, and if you don’t we deduct the price of the media kit for the ESD price.
Either way, we plan to make a process where you can back up your ESD installs so you can reinstall later w/o re-downloading.
March 17th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
>you can simply reinstall over the web if ever needed
oh–i hadn’t expected that. would i be correct in assuming i’d get the latest version each time too? i imagine, though that after d2008 is published, d2007 can be expected to become unavailable?
i’m feeling better about this now–having the media available would be good but, knowing what you’ve just said, not essential.
thank you for your time!
mp
March 18th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Mike -
>> assuming i’d get the latest version each time
You’ll get the same packages but the installer will also pull down any updates and patches for you as well.
>>expected to become unavailable?
2007 files will continue to be available perpetually after 2008, however 08 would have a different setup that will pull down a different package set and use new a serial #. So when 08 comes out you will either need to upgrade to get a new serial # or if you are on SA it will be sent to you with the d/l link for the 08 setup.
April 18th, 2007 at 2:38 am
Thank you
April 28th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
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July 31st, 2007 at 1:03 am
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August 5th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
I want Download this software