[DUG] Turbo Delphi

Paul Eggleton paule at cjntech.co.nz
Thu Aug 10 11:48:37 NZST 2006


Richard Vowles wrote:
> Linux - well, given Kylix failed to sell, cost Borland a huge amount
amount of money 
> and set Delphi back by 18 months, you can understand why they are
loathe to go back 
> there. You'll probably see some Mono tho, but thats just a guess. 

IMO, Kylix mostly failed because of the way Borland did it. See my
previous posting on this matter:

http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic@ns3.123.co.nz/msg00867.html

Borland was in prime position to be the cross-platform tool vendor of
choice, but unfortunately the opportunity was missed.

Cheers,
Paul



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