Readers Choice
By Jerry Coffey
Shuffling the Deck
Delphi Informant Magazine Readers Choice Awards 2003
Last year's Readers Choice Awards seemed to indicate that, after many years of volatility, the pace of change had slowed significantly in the Delphi third-party tools marketplace. For example, in the 25 categories last year, 19 featured repeat winners from the previous year.
Then TurboPower Software dropped a bombshell in January of this year, announcing they were no longer doing business as a vendor in the Delphi arena. Although TurboPower made their decision for reasons that had nothing to do with Delphi (see Alan Moore's interview of TurboPower's President Gary Frerking), the announcement sent shock waves through the Delphi community. And because TurboPower had 10 products in nine categories, our Readers Choice Awards were deeply affected as well.
In brief, you can expect to see some new products moving into the spotlight in TurboPower's absence. And there's certainly no shortage of products; this year's ballot featured 299, up from last year's 228.
In addition, we're always tweaking the categories to make them more accurately reflect the great diversity of products in the Delphi third-party marketplace. To that end, we've added three new ones: Security Tool, Team/Project Tool, and Web Host, so there are now 28.
So let's get to it!
Best Accounting Package
Broken tie. Last year, ColumbuSoft's Accounting for Delphi tied for first place with BS/1 (from Davis Business Systems Ltd.). This year however, Accounting for Delphi emerged as the clear winner with 33% of the vote, besting runner-up BS/1 with 23%. Bravo (from Bravosoft) takes third place for the third year in a row.
Best Add-in
Add-in redux. This category is a near carbon copy of last year's results, with the same products finishing first, second, and third. Developer Express' CodeRush (purchased recently from Eagle Software) took first place for the fifth straight year, with 36% of the votes. ModelMaker Code Explorer (from ModelMaker Tools) took runner-up with 19%, and Multi-Edit from American Cybernetics took third with 12%.
Best Book
Thunderdome. This year, Best Book turned into a battle between titans, the latest editions of the two most popular Delphi titles: Mastering Delphi 7 from the indefatigable Marco Cant? and Borland Delphi 6 Developer's Guide by Steve Teixeira and Xavier Pacheco. Cant?took first place with 44%, while Teixeira and Pacheco took runner-up with 39%.
Best Charting/Mapping Tool
Steemarolla. Not much new in this category. Although its percentage dropped 10 points, from 69% to 59%, Steema Software's teeChartPro still dominates Best Charting/Mapping Tool, and has done so since the category was
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