We will announce details of this project and how you can participate shortly. This year will see us begin an open source development around Javascript that will leverage on our legacy assets and take us forward into the elastic opportunities offered by cloud computing. Currently entry into TurboCASH requires an expensive licencing and a massive compile of 1Million lines of code. Microservices are a lot more suited to open source development. Events of the last 5 years notably the explosion of the cloud have made Javascript technologies particularly enticing. Over the last 30 years TurboCASH has had 5 major technology backbones and changes. So where to with our future open source development? If open source is ideologically important to you, it is also important to us, we will continue with open source, but not on Delphi.
Users are free to continue with the open source releases that we have. There are many paid services to come that would be foolish to ignore.ĭoes this mean that we will stop open source development? No not at all. This will give us the funding required to continue with the proprietary technologies and continue to give you the best of both worlds. To fund this route we have launched TurboCASH Business Class for the princely sum of $60 per year.
Unfortunately these developments don't come for free and we are not licenced to release these components as open source. The latest TurboCASH5 does just that and I am sure you will see the immediate benefits to the TurboCASH user. Instead we have taken a pragmatic approach and embraced some of their technologies. We could take an ideological view and simply ignore the proprietary developments, but it gets harder over the years. To a large portion of our users, free is not as important as excellent. The have been developing some really good code! Over the last 10 years rather than moving towards open source, Embarcadero and its partners have entrenched themselves as proprietary vendors. We have continued to develop in Embarcaderos Delphi. While open source developed, proprietary companies have not been idle. However after 12 years open source had moved on. Some of our users have grown into very large businesses. In this time downloads have exceeded 2 Million and our registered users are over 100 000. We were one of the first Windows projects to adopt open source.
For 12 years TurboCASH ran as a pure open source project.