Re: Delphi for Obsolete.NET - Microsoft's Plans Realised?

Ender wrote:

Kylix (read Borland) failed to achieve at least 2 and 3.

Yes, but things like "lack of updates" and "lack of support" etcetera only
become apparent long after release of the product.

None of this was known or expected when Kylix was first released.
So it couldn't have influenced sales figures, at least not in the
first 6 months.

Yet people didn't buy it in the first place.

It was the people who decided they didn't want to pay for an IDE
for a free operating system, it probably had nothing to do with the product
itself.

That must have been very frustrating to Borland, and was a bad omen for
Linux IDE's as a whole.





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