> I feel your pain. Not only is is not open source, it's *quite* > expensive, much more so than Windows Delphi. We're talking $1K here, > for the *less* expensive version.
there's a rumored free download edition coming out around june (they say). without db support (i fear) and something else too. > Also, there's apparently no driver for Postgresql, so there's no > connection to a full-featured free database. Needless to i think you're wrong here, there's support for interbase, that's free and opensource. or if you want to go big names, there's support for db2 and oracle. > say, Debian is > not supported either. (Am I the only one who finds it offensive that not direct support, but i've seen a message saying that the necessary patched libc has been packaged for debian. there's nothing more you need (except X) > despite the above, they prominently link to www.fsf.org from the Kylix > page?) > > I can't imagine who Borland is trying to target here. It i'm wondering too > truly pains me > to say that, because I'm a Delphi lover who eagerly anticipated this > product.