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COMPETITION for OCTOBER :: NOW ENDED


WIN DELPHI 2005 ARCHITECT
as sold for $3,490 / £2,726 (£2,320 ex VAT)

CLOSING DATE: 31st October 2005

Borland’s Delphi 2005 provides a superb integrated development environment for programming in Object Pascal and C# in both Win32 (Pascal) and .NET (Pascal and C#). The Architect Edition is the top of the Delphi range. It includes a comprehensive set of tools for developing all kinds of general-purpose, database and web applications.

Features include:

  • Rapid application development with Delphi and C# programming languages
  • Visual WYSIWYG client and Web application development
  • Local database connectivity for Borland InterBase,® dBase,® Paradox,® ADO, MySQL,® MSDE,® and Access
  • Win32, Microsoft .NET, and ASP.NET support
  • High-performance database server connectivity for InterBase, Microsoft SQL Server,™ Oracle,® IBM® DB2,® MySQL, and more
  • Multi-tier Win32 and Microsoft .NET database application development
  • IntraWeb® RAD Web application development
  • Borland StarTeam® Standard Edition
  • ECO II for .NET with two-way modeling, OR mapping, object persistence
  • Optimizeit Profiler for the Microsoft .NET Framework

For more information on Delphi 2005 Architect, see the Borland web site.


The Delphi IDE

Minimum system requirements

  • Intel® Pentium® II/450 MHz or better(Intel Pentium III/850 MHz+ recommended)
  • Microsoft® Windows Server 2003™ Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Windows® 2000 Professional Windows® 2000 Server
  • 256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended)
  • 800 MB free hard disk space
  • CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
  • SVGA or higher-resolution monitor (XGA recommended)
  • Mouse or other pointing device


Delphi 2005 Architect has a first rate code editor and powerful debugging


We are pleased to announce the three winners of September's competition:

  • Kim Bracknell of Perth, Australia
  • Rick Fortney of Illinois, USA
  • Zlatibor Boro Urosevic of Milan, Italy

The question we asked was: In ancient Greece, Delphi was the site of the oracle of which Greek god?
And the answer we wanted was: Apollo

The winners of October's competition are:

  • Edward Potgieter, KwaZulu-Natal
  • Mark Stevenson, UK

The question we asked was: In 1983, Borland shipped its first application programming tool. The entire development environment (including the compiler and editor) took up just 33,280 bytes! What was the name of that product?
And the answer we wanted was: Turbo Pascal

Congratulations, folks!!

 


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