2008 Delphi Survey Update
06 Feb
Thanks to all of you who have completed the Delphi Survey. We really appreciate it.
I’ve updated the article to include links to some translated versions of the survey. We now have:
These are, of course, in addition to the English Version.
Some notes on the survey:
- We won’t be making the results public. The results are very, very valuable proprietary information, and we really can’t make the results public. We may discuss some specific issues publicly, but the actual full results themselves are really only for our own internal consumption
- The survey has quite a few questions, and so we are grateful to all of you that take the time to fill it out. But if there are questions that you don’t want to answer, that is fine. Skip the ones you don’t like or don’t want to answer. No problem. The more you fill out, the better, but if you don’t want to answer a particular question, go ahead and leave it.
- We really do use the information in the survey. We use it to make decisions about future direction of the product, what features to include or not include, and where we take things in general. We pour over the results, filter them, examine them, and generally use them in our decision making process. We read all the comments and "Other" answers. It’s all very important to us. Therefore, your response counts.
So, please do what you can to help spread the word about the survey. We want to get as many responses as we can.
Hi Nick
February 6th, 2008 at 5:07 pmCF is sorely missed in delphi.Get it out in Delphi else lot of people will have to start using VS for CF & it would be bad for CG & delphi
Venkatesh
"Q21: For new Delphi applications or those that you are still maintaining, which Windows operating systems will you be deploying applications to over the next 24 months? (Choose all that apply …)"
One of the choices is Windows CE Mobile, which is not a platform supported by Delphi or RAD Studio…
February 6th, 2008 at 7:12 pmI am with VT. I too have been waiting for CF and have not moved to VS.NET. Will we see UMPC on a mobile phone any time soon? I doubt it. CF is here now and need a solution from our favorite Tool. Delphi
February 7th, 2008 at 3:39 amVT -> I suspect that anyone with a burning need for CF has long since moved to VS.NET, and anyone left asking is just curious more than anything, with no serious intent to develop for it. The deploy target itself is a quickly shrinking market thanks to the growth in the UMPC market. Once prices reach parity (give it time), CF devices are going to be as hard to find as a real Palm OS device.
February 7th, 2008 at 8:42 amIgnore the CF and make an ARM cross compiler for Delphi (plus a mobile VCL, of course). Allow Delphi build native apps for Windows CE/Mobile, it will give many developers a reason to use Delphi instead of VS. Again, you won’t be able to catch on VS on its own ground - make something different.
February 7th, 2008 at 1:54 pmI nearly retired before I finished it
What will you be developing in: missing Windows CF with database, the first question asks it, the second question misses it.
Also, in the VCL & IDE enhancement wish list, you didn’t ask what we currently use. The IDE to me incorporates GExpert, cnWizards, MMX Code Explorer, this is my development environment. Maybe should have been questions about what I would miss if I went back to plain IDE.
February 7th, 2008 at 7:34 pmI hope this survey will help CodeGear understands imitating other IDE’s will not bring success.
February 8th, 2008 at 12:58 amC Johnson: Windows CE also means Windows Mobile development, and that’s a market (smartphones, etc.) different from the UMPC one - because devices are fairly different in hardware and size.
February 8th, 2008 at 3:38 amHi,
It missed the title in the table of 3.1 in the Traditional Chinese version. So we don’t know how to complete the form.
February 11th, 2008 at 4:59 pmAlso in Traditional Chinese version, it lacks "在接下來的 12 個月"("in the following 12 monthes") in the question of 4.2.
We fail submit the form when finish the LONG survey and press submit button (with Opera 9.25 and IE 7). There is no any action there. It works fine when press submit in English and Simplified Chinese Versions. I don’t know why can’t submit in TC version.
BTW, there is a tag in TC version which may cause some browser confused:
charset should be big5, not gb2312.
February 11th, 2008 at 10:06 pm