[Lazarus] Wiki pages suggestion - feature comparison

[Leslie Kaye]

Sadly Delphi just became a M$ database front-end.

http://www.embarcadero-events.eu/

Hope my assumption is not true but if it is then
Lazarus - we are about to get an influx of huge number of disillusioned 
Delphi developers
who do not work on enterprise database projects
or those who do work databases but want to work with Firebird
or those who need a cross platform development tool.
The great global strength applications, OpenOffice, GIMP, Firefox, 
Audacity etc,etc = cross-platform = not Delphi.

Lazar- we need a step change in the speed of code testing and applying 
contributed patches to get this show on the road and save "the Delphi 
language" to the next decade.

roll on v 1.0

regards
Leslie


Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:25 PM, theo <xpde at theo.ch> wrote:
>   
>> Why are you constantly trying to convince Delphi people to switch to
>> Lazarus, even in the Embarcadero Forums?
>>     
>
> I'm not telling them to dump Delphi. As I stated over and over - a bit
> of competition is great!  In the newsgroup, I was simply stating that
> other developers could target a whole new market for there products.
> Windows is NOT the only market out there. Plus markets like Linux are
> not nearly as saturated as the Windows market. Linux doesn't have
> 100's of  different CD Writing software, 1000's of different
> Accounting packages etc...  Targeting multiple markets has worked
> wonders for our company and I would like to share the experience with
> other like-minded developers.  When Borland started talking about
> Kylix, it planted the seed that there are other markets. Just because
> Borland ran Kylix into the ground, doesn't mean developers can't
> continue with the idea of supporting multiple OS's. Free Pascal and
> Lazarus gives you that choice.  In the end, YOU choose the best tool
> for the job.
>
>
>   
>> It's important for the Pascal Language that CodeGear is selling products.
>>     
>
> Don't blame me for Borland and now CoadGear doing badly with Delphi.
> If they stopped kissing Microsoft's ass and concentrated on there own
> ideas, they would still have had a brilliant product. Trying to create
> a Visual Studio clone is not going to get them far - as they noticed!!
>
> Just look at Trolltech. Not limiting themselves to one platform and
> embracing new ideas and innovating the whole time, they ended up
> having a brilliant product called Qt.
>
> If you don't like what I have to say - STOP READING MY REPLIES.
>
> Regards,
>   - Graeme -
>
>
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