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Re: "many developers such as myself who are not writing off-the-shelf apps "

Sorry but that's bollocks. With Delphi Pro you could do RDBMS stuff, the difference was that you didn't get all the nice database drivers with Standard (you got Interbase, which was a Borland product). With Enterprise you got those, plus some data studio stuff and some middleware bits.

And to blame Embarcadero is being lazy. Blame Yocam and his ilk who bet the farm on CORBA and the enterprise, renamed the company from a well-known 'Borland' to Inprise and then gave the two fingers to small independents who didn't do enterprise development. When they *eventually* changed back to Borland, the damage was mostly already done, and the spinout to Codegear (which eventually was bought and absorbed by Embarcadero) didn't help matters.

*sigh*