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Borland Delphi and CBuilder for Linux.

Posted by Roblimo on from the more-market-penetration-every-week dept.

jelwell writes "Borland has announced Linux support for Delphi and CBuilder. The tools are scheduled for a mid-2000 release. I wonder if they plan on integrating their products with any window managers/distributions?" Infoworld has the story - which also says, "To seed interest in the Java-on-Linux movement, Inprise this week will provide a free, downloadable preview of the JBuilder just-in-time compiler for Linux that supports many Java 2 Enterprise Edition specifications."

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  1. I don't think it's a good thing at all. by Kaz+Kylheku · · Score: 4

    Nor a bad thing. It's just another piece of proprietary software that I'm not interested in running on my freedom platform. I hope you won't be seduced either.

    Linux hasn't needed Borland since the day it became powerful enough to run GCC and serve as its own development platform.

    Some of you are euphoric every time some commercial vendor offers a piece of ``support'' for Linux, because it means that the popularity of your favorite operating system is increasing. So you rejoice at the popularity increase even if you don't plan to use the newly ported product.

    Some, like me, would use a freedom platform even if it wasn't popular, and would use freedom software even if it wasn't as good as a proprietary alternative in terms of convenience or performance or other measures. How about you?

  2. I wish there were more details. by Amphigory · · Score: 4
    I just wish they had posted more details. For example:
    • Is their port going to be native widgets, or WINE based?
    • If native widgets, what is the toolkit? QT? GTK? Dare I hope both?
    • Any desktop environments?
    • Are they going to port their compiler technology (which is quite good) or just lam off of gcc and free pascal?
    • How 'bout OWL? There are still quite a few OWL apps out there, and C++ Builder includes OWL. Are they going to support it?
    • Is the Java release they are doing this week going to be just the JVM (good) or the JVM plus JBuilder (great)?


    Just a few things that came to mind. I /like/ C++ Builder -- it's VB the way it should have been.
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