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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:53:38 -0500
From: Ed Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Thornton Prime wrote:
>
> 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.
(*snip*)
> 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.
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.
> 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.
True. I hope they succeed and, in the process, pull in a lot
of Delphi coders.
Ed
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