80% Off on Kylix at LinuxMall

[David P. Schwartz]

It seems the price drop is effective at least through August.

I worked with a beta copy of Kylix, and what's most remarkable about it is how similar it is to the Windows version.  Borland does not
differentiate its products by varying the basic IDE (Integrated Development Environment).  Rather, they add additional components and
packages to higher-end SKUs.  I don't imagine you'll find much difference when it comes to building basic Linux apps; the difference will be
found mostly in the "Server's" ability to roll apps that integrate with Apache to support server-side stuff.  IOW, you can build Client-side
apps just as easily with either one, but the "Server" SKU has stuff in it that makes building server-side apps way simpler.  Third parties
will likely come out with components before very long that ease the development of server-side apps in the "Desktop" version.

It's said the a large portion of existing Delphi components will port to Kylix with little or no changes needed.  The site
http://www.torry.net has the largest collection of 3rd party stuff available for Delphi/Kylix environments; a lot of it is freeware, and a
lot of it is shareware.

I cannot comment on how well it handles different target environments like KDE vs., Gnome.  Their web site should explain that.

Digital Wokan wrote:

> I doubt this is a permanent change unless there is an overwhelming
> response to the discounted price.  I looked at it, and seriously
> considered it.  I probably would have jumped on it until I saw what was
> stripped out from the $2000 version (the "server" version).
> Does anyone out there already have this who can explain some of the
> limitations of using it?  Like its ability to popup available properties
> and methods of an object.  Is that only for the Borland supplied and/or
> Kylix built objects, or can I do KDE development on this thing with the
> same level of ease?
>