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Subject:    Re: Best KDE development tools... help... Borland Kylix?
From:       Girard Henri <henrigirard () yahoo ! fr>
Date:       2001-05-26 18:06:38
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kill X is not yet an open source and not free... I can
tell you if I hadn't had free tools to develop (even
on windows) I would never been able to become a
developer... And as a professional I still give hard
contribution to open... Hoping that no squal will come
and close linux !!!
Henri
--- Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@dingo.ping.net.au> a
écrit : > Jonathan Hunt wrote
> ...
> > > Kylix used to be expensive, but Borland just
> yesterday I believe cut the
> > > price of the desktop version to $199 US. You can
> purchase it at
> > >
>
http://shop.borland.com/Product/0,1057,3-15-CQ100479,00.html.
> I'm ordering
> > > my copy tonight.
> > >
> > 
> > Ahem, a excuse me. Kdevelop is free and Kylix now
> costs ONLY $199 I don't 
> > know about you but I consider $199 EXPENSIVE when
> I can get a very good IDE 
> > for free.
> 
> As a professional developer, you will appreciate the
> fact that
> investing $199 in a well known commercial grade
> development tool such
> as Kylix (Delphi) is chicken-feed when comparing it
> with the cost of
> employing a +$50K analyst/developer. Advantages of
> commerical
> products in todays environment are low cost of
> ownership, reduced
> development lifecycle and availability of trained
> IT-professionals.
> 
> Disadvantages of free development tools such as
> KDevelop are limited 
> compatiblity with existing projects/products,
> availability of trained
> IT-professionals and use of QT libraries is not free
> in for commerical
> developments.
> 
> In summary, whilst free development tools are a good
> choice for privat use
> it may not be the an ideal enironment for commercial
> software
> production.
> 
> 
> cheerio Berndt
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