"Allen Bauer" <✉spicedham.codegear.com> wrote in message 
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> early *does* hinder sales of the current release. As I've already
> stated, I've literally seen this play out on several occasions, and it
> ain't pretty...

The trouble with that is I cant recall Borland/CodeGear/Embar ever taking 
the 'open' approach.  Someone already pointed out that before this line of 
thinking ('we cant tell you or it will risk sales'), we got the 'we cant 
tell you because of SOX' line for a number of years.  And over those years, 
Delphi went from mainstream to niche.

> new version, and you're free to buy the upgrade or not. You're under no

I didnt mean it in a negative way - just that by relying on upgrades as 
opposed to new sales is a long term losing strategy as people eventually 
bail out for various reasons (retirement, changing requirements, etc).