On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> Have you checked the price if Windows tools?
> Look at Delphi, C++ Builder, or any MS Visual *
> product. Klyix is on par with the Professional versions
> of those tools, and priced better.
True ... but just as Windows products are priced competively against
Windows competitors, Borland should look closely at their competitors in
this arena.
They are introducing a product into a community accostomed to not only
getting quality development tools for free, but getting the source code to
boot.
They need to remember that the majority of their potential customers are
using Emacs, vi, or other free development environments and they need to
offer both a compelling and competitive feature set as well as a
competitve price. They also need to remember that Linux has a very strong
appeal to people with limited budgets: students, startups, intependent
contractors and consultants.
I don't want Borland to pull out of the market after 6 months, as have
Corel and Adobe done, blaming us in the Linux community because they can't
figure out a product strategy and pricing model that appeal to us. The one
good thing, though, is that if Borland fails, it is clear that open source
alternatives like Glade will grow to fill the void.
I have bought commercial development environments for Linux in the past
(Visual SlickEdit, for example, which I strongly recommend), and would
consider Kylix if it was priced more reasonably.
thornton
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