[DUG] Delphi on Linux
Richard Vowles
Richard.Vowles at borland.com
Thu Aug 10 21:36:35 NZST 2006
I'd say that I agree that most Delphi developers wouldn't look at Kylix
simply because (a) they saw none of their market using Linux and (b) it
was way too hard.
Kylix by the time it got to 3 made _new_ apps reasonably
straightforward. But it didn't appeal to a big enough market because
most I would say of (a).
IMHO, Mono is the right approach. As people re-write their major apps in
.NET, and Mono gets it right, they will be able to run them on Linux
desktops with Microsoft infrastructure (I can't see them not being able
to use SQL Server and so forth on the back-end).
Richard
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-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton
Sent: Thursday, 10 August 2006 5:32 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: RE: [DUG] Turbo Delphi
Personally I'd say it's not hyped enough, or at least not in the right
way. I have found that many of the people who criticize Linux either
have not used it recently or haven't even tried it seriously at all.
That's not to say Linux is perfect, but in my opinion it has already
reached a stage where it is usable for many desktop users. Surely if
Linux is to make any further headway on the desktop it *will* be on the
business desktop, because that's the place where administrators take
care of setting up the system and solving any technical issues.
Cheers,
Paul
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