[Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

[Marco van de Voort]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 02:55:17PM -0200, Everton Vieira wrote:

> How to improve things:
> - Better container lib.
> - Better documentation.
> - Easier installation.
> - Publicity! This would be the most important now. The other parts are in a decently good condition. 
>  Successful projects have a public relations side-project, advertising themselves somehow. Product releases are one way to get free advertising. Thus it is very bad for publicity that Lazarus has releases so seldom. A product release is always mentioned in some programming site, read by potential users. Without releases this looks like a dead project.
  
  - get billion dollar investments of big IT companies.  Java did too :-)