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After Anders' departure, they created a promising project to make Delphi for Linux that was making progress. At the time Borland had sued Microsoft for some bi
by narag 5y ago
After Anders' departure, they created a promising project to make Delphi for Linux that was making progress.
At the time Borland had sued Microsoft for some big IP feud.
Then suddenly an arrangement was made. Delphi for Linux was rushed, released unfinished and flopped. Borland got $30M and access to every .NET documentation. But Delphi.NET was never very popular because it was never as good as VS.NET.
.NET modules were added to Windows native Delphi and slowed down the IDE.
IDE price skyrocketed, users flew and after some acquisitions dance, Delphi is owned by IDERA... not sure how it's doing now because they closed developers' forums years ago.