Linux was much less widely used and less on the radar then, compared to nowadays. That may be why there was no Linux port of BP7. Also, Borland did a Linux port

Linux was much less widely used and less on the radar then, compared to nowadays. That may be why there was no Linux port of BP7. Also, Borland did a Linux port of Delphi - called Kylix - later, but it never got popular and was later stopped. IIRC, it was free or had a free trial, and I had tried it a little. I read on the net that Linux people preferred C/gcc and its toolchain ( me too :), that may be why Kylix didn't get popular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylix_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylix_(software) The above link says that Embarcadero has Linux support (via cross-compiling for Linux, on Windows) on their roadmap. But who knows what will happen, there have been so many changes of direction ...