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It was crossplatform for a time, kylix ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylix_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylix_(software) ) was delphi for linux, it

by msh 13y ago

It was crossplatform for a time, kylix ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylix_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylix_(software) ) was delphi for linux, it worked okay but compared to delphi the produced binaries was not dependency free.

vram22 13y ago
Kylix didn't take off the way Borland management thought it would.
- eli 13y ago
  The company was already "Inprise" by then, right? That was when I started losing faith
  - vram22 13y ago
    Yes, I used the name Borland loosely. As a liker and user of Borland products (earlier), I did keep some track, of all the company restructuring, selling off of divisions, renaming, etc. E.g.: Borland -> Inprise -> CodeGear -> Embarcadero. But didn't correlate the exact dates of company changes with product releases. Not worth it.
- nobleach 13y ago
  I was in deep at that point. Interbase 6.5 was becoming FireBirdSQL. No one really knew WHAT was going to happen in the open source landscape. I was at a convention and it really did appear that Kylix had a valid foot forward. In retrospect, I would have totally gone in a different direction. The web wasn't "there" yet. We were still doing Perl and rudimentary PHP 3/MySQL 3 stuff. It was a gamble on their part, but I can't say I'd have gone the other way.
  - vram22 13y ago
    Interesting ...