Borland is marketing to the Linux community a product called Kylix. They have started calling it 'Delphi for Linux' because it is code and GUI compatible with the Windows version. The Enterpise version is out and sells for around $2K. They say they are releasing a desktop product for around $100 this summer. I suspect that many will try the $100 product to see if the Enterprise version is worth it. It may pull a lot of Delphi coders into the Penquin flock, but I am not sure it will swing VB or VFP script writer types. One advantage is that it generates native Linux executables (ELF). Another is that it does NOT run under an emulation mode, but is a true Linux GUI RAD tool.

How will it fare against KDevelop, the only GPL GUI RAD tool in it's class? Kylix will have a better widget set with a broader range of PEM with which to allow finer control over objects on forms, but KDevelop has become a worldclass GUI RAD tool and FREE is a Property that is hard to over come, all else being equal.
JLK

PS. The .NET already broke a leg, the VB developer's community leg. Now they are trying to apply a splint.

>In his article, Whil Hentzen states unequivacably that "Delphi is dead". AFIK Borland is still agressively marketing Delphi. I realiZe that like the young Fox, Delphi had its day in the bright lights, but now that it has moved into the chorus it no longer garners the same attention it once had. This does not however indicate any state of deadness, for neither the Fox nor Delphi. The fox is no longer in the chorus but has been relagated to a stage hand, nonetheless it is still alive and kicking, and who knows, if the new star, .NET, stumbles and needs an understudy, the Fox is ready and knows all the lines. OK .Net break a leg!
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>Glenn
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>>>>What is Python and how do you get it and learn it ?
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>>>Edward;
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>>>http://www.python.org/
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>>>Now you are an expert! This is a language you can get wrapped up with or is that bitten by?
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>>>Tom
>>Thanks, Tom
>>I'm presently into Java and JSP
>>I felt threaten by the non-support of the VFP language.
>>that's why i think we have to move on
>>although i am pursuing 2 lines, VB-ASP-SQLServer and JAVA-JSP-JDBC-Oracle for survival as an independent developer.