[DUG] Turbo Delphi

[James Sugrue]

>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

It's fairly easy to blame Borland for the Kylix implementation five years
after the fact. A lot has happened in the Linux world since then. I agree
that Kylix 1.0 was fairly bad, but I think the biggest problem with Kylix
was when it was released. At the time of release most Linux developers
(probably still are I guess) were complete zealots and used GCC and Emacs
and would never have paid for an IDE.

I take your point about the write once for any platform. I think even today
if Kylix did that, how big a market is there? I still think Linux is way
over hyped, particularly on the Business Desktop.