[DUG] Embarcadero article

Kurt kwilkin at gmail.com
Sat Jun 13 19:24:14 NZST 2009


 From 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/12/embarcadero_codegear_tools_future/

"Embarcadero is now betting on cross-platform for Delphi and its partner 
C++ Builder, which shares many of the same libraries. 'The most 
important thing is native cross-platform, Mac and Linux. Some of our 
biggest customers have moved completely to Mac. Internationally we don't 
hear as much Mac interest, but Linux is really strong,' Williams said.

Wasn't this tried before, at least on Linux, with a 2001 product called 
Kylix, which nobody bought?

'Two big differences,' according to Williams, at least. 'First, that 
wasn't a cross-compile approach. People are fine developing on Windows. 
I need to be able to debug against a remote machine, but I don't need 
the whole IDE over there. The other difference [is] they were too early 
as far as Linux goes, and from a visual standpoint now Mac matters. I've 
never been so sure about an opportunity.'  "

cheers, Kurt


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