It seems that Delphi is losing it's customers to a new competitor in the Object Pascal compiler market, as in this case, it's not Free Pascal or Lazarus.

Anyone keeping up with the 'latest and greatest' in the software development world will tell you that that is this new managed source trend. Though not quite so attractive to us game developers, it does however appeal to the business community for whatever the reasons. This could be a problem for Delphi as it's bread and butter is exactly those business developers.

Eugene Mayevski of the EldoS Corporation writes about one of their mainstream products, SecureBlackbox and how the transition from Delphi to Chrome went.

I hope our friends at CodeGear will be reading this too.


"Until now, Borland has yet to provide any support for other CLR platforms, or even for .NET 2.0 in its Delphi compiler. As demand for .NET 2.0 grew among our customers, this left us with no choice other than to actively migrate our product entirely to Chrome."


Read the case study article posted at www.remobjects.com