[lazarus] BorCon Update

[Mike Zambeck]

Greetings from San Diego.  Thought you all might want to know what's up
down here...

1.  Chairman Dale and Co. seem to have gotten the bug to create
cross-platform development tools.  Not just win32/linux, but very cross
platform.

2.  They also seem convinced that they can get a large number of VB
programmers to switch to Delphi with this theme: "Delphi 5 is the quickest
path to linux app development from VB.

3.  They had a couple more demos:

a.  The componant palette has a few tabs now.

b.  The quickie demo worked okay.

c.  They got a database access demo working with db componants and midas
that worked after a few tries.  Man, the guy doing the demo was bright red
and sweating bullets while he was having problems :)

All in all, pretty impressive.  The lady behind me even let out an 'oh my
god' when the db demo worked.

4.  I've only attended two linux/kylix sessions but they both had pretty
low attendance.  Based on chatting with a few attendies, it seems like the
delphi community at large isn't as excited about kylix as you might think.
Just my impression after a day...

5.  No mention of FPC/Lazarus.  That kind of irks me, especially when they
keep claiming that they're the 'first linux rad tool.'  Who knows, you
might be first!  I may bring this up to them if I have the opportunity.
Speaking of scheduling, the party line is 'release when it's finished.'

If anyone wants me to try to find out anything in particular, send a note
to me or the list and I'll do my best.

Mike Z.