I use Delphi Professional v7.0. I don't write hitech DB's. I write e.g. music-keyboard-calculator, Margolus-CA, RTF-editor etc. (Why) should or shouldn't I just download C++, Delphi & JBuilder on http://cc.codegear.com/free/turbo or http://www.turboexplorer.com/downloads ? Fons.