>>>>Hi
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>>>>I know there have been people here who use or used Delphi and I wondered what their thoughts were about using Delphi and Advantage Database as an alternative to VFP and .Net. This has nothing to do with whether .Net is a good tool etc. I am just interested in people's perspective or experience with Delphi and how effective it might be in replacing VFP when combined with the Advantage Database server.
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>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Simon
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>>>Hi Simon,
>>>
>>>I don't see any reason for move to Delphi. Future is .NET, Delphi is yesterday like VFP.
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>>That was going to be my response as well; however, this graph doesn't seem to support it (yet):
>>http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
>
>This index just about calculated statistics with Google searches. I never heard a language "D" and I know SAS is using at just a few big companies. That proves just "D" or "SAS" developers needed more Google search... :)

In 2008, SAS had 33% percent of the market share in advanced analytics:

IDC Report: SAS leads in advanced analytics with a 33 % market share
A new report, IDC’s Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2008 Vendor Shares , validates the growth of advanced analytics and SAS leadership. The research says SAS is the "overwhelming leader in advanced analytics" with a 33 percent market share, more than twice the sales of the next closest supplier and more than the next 16 vendors on the list combined.

"For the last three years in the BI tools market, the advanced analytics segment grew faster than the query, reporting and analysis segment," said Dan Vesset, IDC Program Vice President for Business Analytics Research and co-author of the report. "We believe that this trend will continue even as economic conditions remain a challenge."

IDC also notes that SAS was No. 2 in the overall Business Intelligence tools market and among the top five suppliers of query, reporting and analysis tools segment.



(Fixed typo).