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 --- Richard Vowles, Product Evangelist, Developer Tools Group email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +64-9-3600-231 cell: +64-21-467747 other: MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED], skype: rvowles blog: http://www.usergroup.org.nz/blogs/selectBlog.html?id=39769 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
