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Borland Delphi was the modern MS Access clone. Ever have seen how fast you can build an DB app with that? I'm sure the newest version of Delphi is still as good

Borland Delphi was the modern MS Access clone. Ever have seen how fast you can build an DB app with that? I'm sure the newest version of Delphi is still as good today as the 2001/2003 version at that time ;) On Mac it is Filemaker or not?

bitL 9y ago
Pricing killed Borland/Delphi. Unattainable to regular developers and small businesses.
- fb03 9y ago
  What about Lazarus?
- jetti 9y ago
  Agreed. They finally have an "express" version but even that was $199. I'm sorry but I'm not going to pay that much money for something that I may never even use, especially for a stripped down version of it.
_pmf_ 9y ago
The advent of VB (and ultimately .NET) obsoleted the advantages. In modern .NET (and VB since 1998), you can pull a DataGrid onto the canvas, configure the DB parameters in the IDE and are basically done for an intranet data entry UI.
teilo 9y ago
Filemaker has many issues: It's not an RDB, it's SQL support is limited to poor, and it's scripting is not nearly as versatile as Access.
tonyedgecombe 9y ago
Delphi was more of a VB competitor, Borland did have a database product called Paradox which was closer to Access.