Corel will buy Borland!!

[Kevin Berry]

I believe that there is already a Borland Pascal
command line compiler built for Linux.  I'd speculate
that they're working on the VCL stuff at the moment,
and they already have an IDE (JBuilder Foundation,
although they will have to update it for Object Pascal
two-way tools stuff).  Since they've already talked
about a mid-year release for C++Builder and Delphi on
Linux I don't think they'd back off now (even if Corel
has bought them).  I'd bet that Delphi for Linux will
still be more popular than C++Builder for Linux. 
After all, there are a number of C++ tools out there
already...  And look and Borland's Linux survey
results, more people wanted Delphi for Linux than C++
Builder.  I've also seen a survey that was posted on
the Linux.com site a while back (not Borland's survey)
where there was an almost unanimous vote count in
favour of Delphi for Linux (the next tool had a third
of the number of votes I believe).

Cheers,
Kevin.

--- Florian Klaempfl <Florian.Klaempfl at gmx.de> wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Carl Eric Codere wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > >          Apart from investment purposes, i don't
> see how
> > > you can consider this good news for us, I'm
> sorry, unless
> > > they start using our compiler for Delphi!! They
> will
> > > definitely support linux, that means, it's
> byebye for
> > > us , no???????? Except if we support other
> processors...
> 
> I don't think so! Remember the upcoming changes for
> us: K8
> Merced ...
> 
> > > or get hired by them!
> > 
> > I seriously doubt that last thing.
> > 
> > But other than that, I agree. Corel is quite
> open-source minded;
> > I think it is quite likely that they will release
> Delphi under
> > an open-source license, creating direct
> competition for us.
> 
> I would prefer an open source Delphi. We could
> compile the VCL with FPC.
> But I still doubt if they'll make a Delphi for
> Linux. JBuilder and
> C++ Builder, yes, but Delphi?
> 
> But maybe we could suggest now Corel a cooperation
> ...
> 
> > 
> > My guess is that they will release the developer
> tools for free,
> > and use them to create their own (paying)
> applications, because
> > there is no money to be made on developer tools...
> 
>
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