<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 March 2016 at 21:56, Denis Kozlov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dezlov@gmail.com" target="_blank">dezlov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 31/03/2016 21:31, vfclists . wrote:<br>
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They are going all out against Apple and Redhat.<br>
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You meant Apple and Google maybe? They target Windows, Mac/iOS and Android.<br>
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A wide selection of supported platforms is where FPC and Lazarus defiantly have an edge.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<br clear="all"></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Microsoft earns some patent fees from every single Android device sold. They've lost the mobile<br>war for the next few years to come until Xamarin makes app development easy for Windows for<br>developers to produce more apps for the mobile platform.<br><br>They are definitely going after Redhat, and Oracle in the short-term. They are not going the mistake<br></div><div>they made with Apple.<br></div><div><br></div><div>SQL Server will be available for Linux quite soon.<br><br></div><div>They have recently announced Bash for Windows and they are aiming to get a lot of Unix tools running easily on Windows.<br></div><div>In fact those tools have been there for a while but they were not seriously promoted.<br><br></div><div>They are going after the whole Linux.Unix system. They want Linux admins and<br>developers to realize that they can have good GUI development and server-management<br></div><div>tools available on Windows and still have all the command line goodies they've learned to<br></div><div>love on Linux.<br><br>Given the lack of integrated toolsets available for Linux, they will probably make it.<br></div></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Frank Church<br><br>=======================<br><a href="http://devblog.brahmancreations.com" target="_blank">http://devblog.brahmancreations.com</a></div>
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