I think there is a bit of a mix-up. The US$1000 Borland Kylix is
comparable to Delphi 5 Enterprise. It is not meant to be a database
backend but a general-purpose Rapid Application Development (RAD)
tool comparable to Visual Basic and PowerBuilder. It brings the
the "drag-and-drop" UI style development to KDE and GNOME plus provide
native ODBC-like interfaces to Oracle,Sybase,Interbase.
It would allow Windows developers to easily port their Delphi programs
directly into Linux. Kylix removes the excuse of traditional corporate
software development from staying away from Linux because of the lack of
development tools such as Powerbuilder, Visual Basic, Oracle Forms, etc.
There will be a GPLed version of Kylix but most likely without the
native interfaces to the databases. However, it would generate native
Linux binaries that utilize the KDE/GNOME GUI.
Ambo
Jerome Tan wrote:
>
> If it's going to be more than US$1000, that wouldn't make sense... Linux
> plus that software would cost more than Windows plus Access! I think SQL
> Server was not even US$1000?
>
> On the side of development cost, the cost for developing applications in
> Access is much faster than Kylix?
>
> Regards/
> Jerome Tan
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Victor Michael Blancas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [plug] similar Access database?
>
> > Yup, its more than $1000. That's why I'm hoping it would be available in
> > Greenhills. hehehe
> >
> > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Jerome Tan wrote:
> >
> > > It won't be freeware?
> > >
> > > Regards/
> > > Jerome Tan
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > +639175277928
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Victor Michael Blancas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 9:07 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [plug] similar Access database?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Borland Kylix already will be available soon. It is Delphi
> development
> > > > for Linux. I hope it will be available in Greenhills.
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Jerome Tan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi there,
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a software for Linux that's almost similar to MS Access?
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards/
> > > > > Jerome Tan
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > >
> > > > >
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