[plug] kylix sales pitch

[Mike Holland]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, madco wrote:

> I was there, they just introduced Kylix and some new features it had. It 

Most of the people there seemed to be Delphi developers, and the pitch was
directed mainly to them.

 Kylix could be a Big Thing in Linux. For the first time Linux has a
sophisticated RAD environment. Delphi/Kylix use Borlands object-pascal
language.

  Kylix uses a new component set (widgets etc) called CLX
("clicks") which can be used to replace the old windoze-only VCL. 
Where VCL wrapped windows components, CLX uses Qt from Trolltech, the
same widget set used by KDE.  Delphi 6 on windows will have both VCL and
CLX.
  The Kylix IDE is not a totally native port yet, it still uses VCL
and WINE libraries, but will be ported to CLX in future.

> It is quite pricey though and I will wait for the student version to be 

You mean the 'free' version? It will be free download, but only for
producing GPL (or private) software. We dont know how crippled it will be
yet. I dont think there will be a student version too.
  It all sounds really good. I'm sure we will all hear a lot more when the
free version is released. This could be the start of a boom in desktop
apps for linux, especially database-oriented ones.


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