“Inprise (previously Borland) has carried out a developer survey
of 24,000 developers, which revealed that over 40 percent of
respondents were interested in developing with Delphi on Linux and
40 percent were also interested in using a C/C++ development tool
on Linux. The results also indicate that the majority of developers
participating in the survey are planning application development
and client server database development projects on Linux.”
“Consequently Inprise intends to port most if not all of its
development products to Linux. The porting of Delphi is
particularly important because it is estimated that there are over
1 million Delphi developers. The company has been shipping
InterBase its database product on Linux for over a year – but that
product was developed under Unix anyway and always had a Unix
incarnation. Inprise has now announced the immediate availability
of VisiBroker, its ORB, for Linux and also has a Linux version of
its Java development tool, JBuilder. Delphi and the C tools will
follow.”