Most of the Nordic ski industry runs on software written in Delphi: property management, cabin rentals, equipment, scheduling of classes and private lessons; th

Most of the Nordic ski industry runs on software written in Delphi: property management, cabin rentals, equipment, scheduling of classes and private lessons; the whole thing. I spent 13 years developing and maintaining that system, around 2-3 MLOC at the time I left. I found Delphi awesome in many ways but too enterprisey and too far removed from reality in others. Every few years a new technology would appear to replace the previous half baked attempt at solving the same problem, or dropped completely and replaced by third party components. Long term I found the software very frustrating to work with since everything about it was so volatile and there were so many random gaps in quality and functionality. Their database, Interbase, was pretty good; and well integrated into the language/IDE. Open sourced and forked as Firebird SQL at one point.