>>>>>>>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,
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>>>>>>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
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>>>>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... :)
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>>>In 2008, SAS had 33% percent of the market share in advanced analytics:
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>>>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.
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>>I'll bet that is based on sales $ rather than sites in use or developers or anything else. That kind of skews perception when their product is so incredibly expensive.
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>I would not bet with you for that... ;)
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>SAS is a really really so so expensive tool.

I think in this country a lot of the big users are financial institutions and the government agencies - you know - the ones taxpayers had to bail out because they spent so much money on bad investments.. :(