Author: Chuck
Date: 10:14:31 03/14/01
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On March 14, 2001 at 01:35:33, Johan Hutting wrote: >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: Of course I visited borland.com and as I see it, the less than $1000 versions are not very useful. > >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. > The download url is also somewhere off of www.borland.com but you have to register to download it. I didn't bother looking for it once I compared the feature list with the price. A RAD environment would be nice, but I'll keep the thousand bucks and continue to do any work in C (at least for my home projects). >Regards, >Johan
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