ODPC - One Delphi Per Child
Ok, I just made that up. But that is the crux of the 1 million seat licensing deal just closed with the Russian Federal Agency of Education. Infoworld also has an article about the deal right here. A whole new generation of Delphi developers are now in the making!
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Posted by Allen Bauer on February 1st, 2008 under CodeGear |
February 1st, 2008 at 11:01 am
pretty sweet deal, do they not know that MS express tools are free?
I wonder how many of those developers will use "Delphi" as we used to know it (not PHP and the new stuff)
February 1st, 2008 at 11:17 am
Incredible. I know that the Russian developers have always been very active with Delphi. I’m glad that this can continue.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:59 am
@Andrew
I have a number of friends from Eastern Europe countries Belarus and Ukraine. Nearly everyone has been using Delphi for one thing or another during their university study.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Congrats to CodeGear!! Maybe it is time to think of moving more resources to high growth markets outside of the US…
February 1st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
At the end of 90th Delphi used by almost 60% of ex-USSR developers.
In addition, you should know that Adobe spread the same amount of licenses in the same federal program, and many others (WinRAR and so on).
However, living here I’m sceptical a few about results, because Russian Federal Agency of Education action isn’t looks like "the deep and whole" roadmap.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Contratulations CodeGear! Excellent news for Delphi community.
February 2nd, 2008 at 6:34 am
1 000 000 installations with the current installer? It better be fixed real soon - it’s too fragile for computer lab environments.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:34 am
1.000.000 future Lazarus users, contributors and developers… Yeahh !!!! Go CodeGear !!!
February 4th, 2008 at 5:11 am
1.000.000 * 4 * 60 * 60 makes an incredeble 14.400.000.000 seconds of Russian educational improductivity
Seems the old communists are on the ruther again, indeed..
February 4th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
glad to hear it.
February 5th, 2008 at 4:38 am
Will we see another cold war between Russian Delphi armies and Microsoft western ones? Well, the last one saw the victory of the latter
February 8th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
So, I think the best way in forgeting Delphi and developing some opensource compilers\IDE , like Lazarus. Вот так вот
February 20th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Congrats CodeGear!
March 28th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Congratulations. Hope CodeGear to make more 1 million license (ODPC whatever) for other country, especially big population developed country, like Indonesia :-). Like old Turbo Pascal using in school and university is now replace by MS product. Make more community power using Excellent Delphi product.