Comments on: Embarcadero announces “Instant-On” – Eliminating the Installation Process for Delphi (and all other products)

By: Olaf Monien

Olaf Monien — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:09:26 +0000

Somewhat. The difference is, that it does not load a full VM, but runs in the context of the physical machine. Much fewer overhead that is.

By: General Jackson Tackett

General Jackson Tackett — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:51:57 +0000

Sounds like VMwares Virtual appliances

By: Mick

Mick — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:36:18 +0000

Fair enough…I was a bit salty when I responded. You do make a good point. Regards.

By: Your Installation is Complete by JEDI Windows API

Your Installation is Complete by JEDI Windows API — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:58:35 +0000

[...] – without installation! That it is possible shows us Embarcadero with “Instant-On” (Olaf’s Thoughts). Delphi on a USB data store – I’m looking forward to it! convert this post to [...]

By: Olaf Monien

Olaf Monien — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:44:02 +0000

There will be upgrade options. I've not seen official price lists yet, but they told me that they won't forget the guys who paid software assurance.

By: Raymond Wilson

Raymond Wilson — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:55:10 +0000

I get your point. I think you may be missing mine.

While InstantOn is cute, it doesn't solve my (totally biased ) need for the Delphi dev tools to be improved.

If InstantOn is in fact someone else technology Embarcadero has licensed, and the installer jockeys there shoehorned the toolset into it than that's totally different from deciding to invest in the R&D to make it happen versus making the same R&D investment into your core competency of making dev tools. Which, oddly enough, fits into your argument

Anyway, I'm not looking for a drawn out debate – just venting a little

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:46:23 +0000

How does this affect customers with software assurance?

By: Mick

Mick — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:14:12 +0000

>I'm quite sure the compiler people didn't do it. But that's not the point. The issue is resource allocation.

No, resource allocation is not the point. Consider the auto manufacturer Honda. Now, when they are working on a new car design, do you think they pull the salesmen in to help the engineers? No, not at all because they do entirely different things. Just like you wouldn't have the engineers try to sell the cars.

Embarcadero doesn't just have this "pool" of programmers that are all equally gifted. Some know a lot about writing compilers, and some are better suited to improving the IDE. Makes sense, doesn't it?

By: Mason Wheeler

Mason Wheeler — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:25:55 +0000

>It's the same old argument that Microsoft always gets: "I can't believe they added X, Y, and Z features to Office when they should have been fixing UAC."

They keep getting that argument because it's valid. UAC is a badly broken feature, and it's one that users have to interact with on a regular (often daily) basis. See The Joel Test, question 5. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog00000...

By: Jolyon Smith

Jolyon Smith — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:42:52 +0000

Looks to be only as part of an "All Access" license/SKU rather than a complete move away from installation (although presumably the tech would allow that if they so choose in the future).

English version of the press release here:

http://www.embarcadero.com/news/press_releases/...