Well I was just ata clients who are trialing Exo Net, and guess what
language they are writing it in....thats right Delphi......so there you
go....Mind you the first accounting package Mark Loveys did was in Turbo
Pascal, so i guess it would have been a natural progression......
Jeremy Coulter
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> I was just reading an article in the Herald about linux and saw this:
>
> ---quote---
> Exo-net technical director Mark Loveys said the company, formed
> last year by
> himself and fellow PC Direct refugees Maurice Bryham and David
> McKee Wright,
> originally designed the exo-net 2000 package to run on any SQL (structured
> query language) database running on Windows NT.
>
> It started making it Linux compatible in January in response to customer
> requests and a tip from American software house Borland that
> applications ran
> two or three times faster on Linux than NT.
> ---quote---
>
> Interesting that "borland" and not "inprise" was mentioned.....
>
> You can read the article at:
>
http://www.herald.co.nz/nzherald99/story.cfm?theStoryID=5016
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