Crossing Platforms
By Brian Wilson
Borland's Delphi is the object-oriented (OO)
descendant of the legendary Turbo Pascal. I've wanted
to play around with Delphi for awhile, but it has been
available only for Windows platforms. But now there's
Kylix, Borland's Linux port of Delphi.
There are three available versions of Kylix, and you
can use either one to develop cross-platform
applications that will run on Windows or Linux
systems. I tested the Server Developer version, which
includes the ability to write CGI programs and Apache
Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) modules. The other
editions are available as Desktop ($1000) and Open
($99 shrink-wrapped or free download). Both versions
are for writing desktop applications only. The Open
version is set up for generating only GPL (free)
applications, whereas the other two can be used to
create commercial software.
I must admit that although I have used integrated
development environments, given the option, I always
fall back to using emacs and a shell prompt for
serious work. Thus, it was with trepidation that I
loaded Kylix onto my development system.
Kylix Server Developer
Borland
www.borland.com
cost: $2000 |
Pros:
Rich set of extensions.
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