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发信人: Lg (创造人生的传奇), 信区: Linux
标 题: Linux gets nod with Borland tools support
发信站: BBS 荔园晨风 (Tue Sep 28 14:36:45 1999), 站内信件
By Dana Gardner
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 6:52 AM PT, Sep 27, 1999
Inprise this week will announce that its Borland Delphi and CBuilder tools
will soon
support Linux, enabling developers familiar with the tools to build native
Linux
applications and for Windows applications built with them to be ported to
Linux
relatively easily.
The arrival in mid-2000 of the Linux versions of Delphi and CBuilder will
follow the
arrival in the first quarter of Borland JBuilder for Linux, a Java
development tool.
To seed interest in the Java-on-Linux movement, Inprise this week will
provide a free,
downloadable preview of the JBuilder just-in-time compiler for Linux that
supports many
Java 2 Enterprise Edition specifications.
The full embrace of Linux by Inprise across its tools and middleware
offerings shows a
strategic shift based on the assumption that Linux will ultimately become a
major
enterprise platform.
Linux will also grow quickly as a preferred workstation development platform,
Inprise
officials said.
"We intend to set the pace and standard for professional Linux development,"
said Michael
Swindell, group product manager for Linux at Inprise, in Scotts Valley,
Calif. "There are
a lot of free tools and not many are oriented to application development. By
delivering a
rapid application development environment, we allow professional developers to
proliferate [applications] on Linux."
Code-named Kylix, the Borland Linux tools are being developed in tandem with
the next
version of Windows-based Delphi and CBuilder tools. Kylix will leverage the
functions
within those integrated-development environments and share the visual
component library
within their frameworks.
"When Kylix is released, virtually overnight there will be hundreds of
thousands of
applications available on the Linux platform, and many will be ports from
Windows,"
Swindell said. "It makes a lot more sense for ISVs and vendors that build to
Windows and
want to also offer Linux versions."
Kylix will support the major Linux brands, including Red Hat, as well as the
major
databases, Swindell said. It will also include Inprise's Midas multitier
architecture
elements, allowing for a broader role for Linux as an operating system for
n-tier
systems.
"Borland has been doing tools for years, and for them to jump into the Linux
space is a
big win for Linux on the development side," said Manu Kumar, president of
SneakerLabs, an
independent software vendor in Pittsburgh.
Inprise, which has suffered from stagnant revenue growth in key areas, may be
gambling
heavily on Linux as an alternative to its Windows-based business. The results
of that bet
depend on the acceptance of Linux, but the availability of strong development
tools
should help Linux's adoption.
"It's too soon to tell. Linux represents much of the same entry-level value
that Windows
NT held for people. It's the easy way to deploy a simple department-level app,
" said Eric
Brown, an analyst at Forrester Research, in Cambridge, Mass.
Inprise Corp., in Scotts Valley, Calif., is at www.inprise.com.
InfoWorld Editor at Large Dana Gardner is based in New Hampshire.
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