FYI:
Borland/Inprise has been porting Delphi, C++ Builder and JBuilder to Linux since at least Sept/Oct. 1999, when someone on a Delphi list posted a notice. I expect Delphi to be supported on both platforms for a long time.

I too resemble that. I started on a Radio Shack model 1 in 1980. Moved to TI Professional (768K barrier, not 640K), had EGA color in 1982. All of you "new" to computing (1990+), remember: Good technology, design, support, whatever, is useless without topnotch marketing. The industry is littered with the bodies of dead companies that had better products than anything else available at the time.

just my .02