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Subject: Re: Oops - at a minimum price of $1000, I'd call it useless.

Author: Johan Hutting

Date: 22:35:33 03/13/01

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On March 13, 2001 at 22:55:43, Chuck wrote:

>After posting this msg, I searched mysimon.com to get an idea of the price Kylix
>would run. I figured $200-300 for a version with JDBC support, etc. Well, the
>lowest I saw was $1000, which puts it in the "forget it" category.

If you would have taken a peek at borland.com, you would have found the
following:

Pricing and Availability
Kylix is available in three versions: Server Developer for professional and
corporate Apache Web developers for $1999, Desktop Developer for professional
application developers for $999, and Open Edition for open source and free
software (GPL) development only will be available for free download or for
purchase at $99 (with hardcopy documentation and CD).

Depending on your needs the program costs between $0 and $1999.

>>I see Borland has released their new Linux RAD tool, Kylix. Has anyone had a
>>chance to get a look at it yet? It appears from the screen print that the
>>language is again based on Pascal.

Actually, it's the same language (ObjectPascal) with a new component system.

> I guess it's no surprise that what they may
>>have done is a "general port" of Delphi to Linux.
>>
>>Of course, I know you don't need RAD anything to build a chess engine, but for
>>any kind of interface development it's useful.
>>
>>Any comments on Kylix as a general chess developers tool would be appreciated.

You can find more info at http://www.borland.com/kylix/
I haven't been able to locate the URL for the download of the open edition yet
though.

Regards,
Johan



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