On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Ed Hill wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Having recently attended a Delphi Users Group meeting, I'll
> wager that current Linux users are only a fraction of Kylix's
> potential market. There are *plenty* of Delphi developers out
> there now who see Kylix as an entry point to Linux coding.
A very good point ... but again, it is important to remember the
competition. Will Delphi users who switch to Linux and use Kylix be
competitive against their competition who doesn't use Kylix?
The cost of doing development on Linux with Kylix is already more
expensive than the traditional Linux developer. A Kylix developer will
only be competitive if they can produce better code faster than someone
not using Kylix. I have watched high school students do amazing work with
Perl in a matter of minutes using only vi -- and they were paid minimum
wage for their efforts. The bar is rather high.
> True. I hope they succeed and, in the process, pull in a lot
> of Delphi coders.
Me too. I really want Kylix to succeed, and by extension I want Borland to
succeed. I watched InterBase closely, though, and I'd say that has been
pretty much a disaster from a business standpoint. I hope they learned
valuable lessons about the Linux community, but I'm not sure they did.
thornton
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