>May I add the following: Delphi has three distributions, standard, professional, and enterprise. In version 6, "standard" can be downloaded for free! As long as it isn't used to distribute commercial applications.
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>"Standard" used to be cheap in previous versions, too. Around US$ 100. Probably still the same price if you want to use "standard" for commercial applications.
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>Hilmar.
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>>One thing that Delphi did: You can download the entire Help system from a previous version.
Disclaimer: I don't user Delphi professionaly. At least, not yet.
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