On 13/01/2008, hy-soft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am monitoring lazarus for about five years now and find the whole > project is very impressive.
I got to know Lazarus three years ago while evaluating alternatives to Kylix. After a few months of testing our company switch over 100% to Lazarus (from Kylix 3 and Delphi 7). Over the last 2+ years it has improved by leaps and bounds! The Free Pascal and Lazarus developers are a awesome crowd. > You guys did a great job - but unfortunately the IDE is NOT in some > state that could be used for a productive work (IMHO). Comparing Lazarus IDE to the Delphi 7 IDE, I think they are pretty much on par. Each one is different in there own way and each one has good and bad points. I much prefer Lazarus at the moment because it a lot more open for suggestions and it's very easy to extend the IDE to have features one likes. One can help steer the Lazarus project into the future and no more waiting years for the next release to include some fixes (plus having to pay a small fortune to get those fixes). We (our company) took a chance with Kylix 3 and got horribly burned - we ain't making that mistake again. Vendor lock-in is now a think of the past for us! Our company is having great success with Lazarus and Free Pascal. The IDE is definately not holding us back in any way. Plus we now have a true cross platform development tool - we have developers working on different platforms coding on the same project to ensure a true cross-platform product. We have about 4 months of development remaining in our 2.5 years of work in rewriting Master Maths's flagship product. We could not have done it without Free Pascal, Lazarus and a great community of developers for support. I'm sure if you give FPC and the Lazarus IDE a true chance you will see how productive you can be! Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
