Borland Releases Kylix 3.0 for Delphi and C++

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Borland is giving us Kylix for C++ after all. Kylix 3.0 is available in Open, Professional, and Enterprise versions. Time to start banging out those CLX apps! The Register also has a story about this."

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amusing quote

[Peter La Casse]

From the Register article: "Command-line tools get the job done at a low-level, but these tools have not been easy to use. You have several console windows open to build and debug [an application]," said product manager for RAD solutions John Ray Thomas.

Since when is having multiple xterms "not easy to use"?

Too bad the BDE is dead

[Drunken_Jackass]

While it seems that Delphi, Kylix and JBuilder are going strong, Borland has all but abandoned the (seemingly) less profitable Borland Database Engine. Too bad, too since a lot of applications make use of the BDE.

I'm using such an application right now, and due to some size limits on the BDE's config file, i'm unable to use it as efficiently/effectively as possible. Borlands tech support doesn't cover the BDE, and the only newsgroup on the BDE is not monitored by Borland folks frequently enough (if at all).

While i can understand scaling back certain aspects of one of your product lines, to shift focus/userbase to newer/better products, we're talking the BDE here for Pete's sake!

It's just frustrating.

MS

[oliverthered]

While I'd aggree that Microsoft makes it 'cheep' to by Visuial Studio, they don't make it that cheep to buy the platform licences.

Also Visual Studio has the crapest development environment I've ever used and the help is shite. It's easier to write code in notepad than VC++, even the windows 9x version of notepad with the 64k file size limit.

Re:How seemless will it be

[Principal Skinner]

Argh! The spelling around here is... unseemly!