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Borland's Kylix Page The Borland's page on Kylix

The above link goes to the official Kylix information page from Borland.

 

  Kylix News and Links

 

Why Linux?
A Borland Community article by Todd Shoemaker

Press release: Borland Delivers Kylix™ Open Edition for Linux® Community

Press release: Borland Drives Rapid Application Development for Linux® with Kylix™ Evaluation Program

A first look at Kylix
A delphi.about.com article

Kylix price promotion! -- Get Kylix desktop at a bargain price!

ThinkSQL RDBMS for Kylix

ProKylix source code profiler for Kylix
A press release from prodelphi.com

Reuse Existing Database Code in your Kylix Apps
A press release from dataWeb

Programming Kylix with the CLXDisplay API
A Borland Community article by Bruno Sonnino

Using the Open Tools API in Kylix
A Borland Community article by Ray Lischner

LinuxPlanet review of Kylix Server Developer and Desktop Developer
A Borland Community article

Using the Java Native Interface with Delphi and Kylix
A Borland Community article by Matthew Mead

New Kylix White Papers Available
A Borland Community article by John Kaster

Kylix submissions in CodeCentral!

Linux hampered by lack of standards
A Borland Community article by J.D. Hildebrand

TurboDB 3 for Delphi and Linux
Cross-Platform Database Components for Kylix and Delphi by dataWeb

kylixnet
We talk Kylix

Moving BDE table data to Linux as XML
A Borland Community article by Dr. Bob

FreeCLX source code available on SourceForge
A Borland Community article by John Ray Thomas

Adventures with Kylix
A Borland Community article by James R. Knowles

Updated Indy demos for Kylix
A Borland Community article by John Kaster

"Tool will smooth Linux development"
Borland's long-awaited Kylix may boost the operating system's appeal in the corporate arena.
An eWEEK article by Roberta Holland

Are you ready for Kylix? Is your system ready for Kylix? Here is a way to find out.
A Borland Community article by David Intersimone

Calling All Delphi Developers! Tell Borland about your hopes, your dreams, your plans ...
A Borland Community article by John Kaster

John K's LinuxWorld report
A Borland Community article by John Kaster

Kylix™ Wins Show Favorite Award at LinuxWorld!

‘Delphi for Linux’ Finally a Reality
An SD Times article by Edward J. Correia

Kylix is here! It's hot. It's RAD. It's the biggest news at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
A Borland Community article by J.D. Hildebrand

Lou's Views: Barbarians in Tuxedoes.
A Linux Today article by Lou Grinzo

January 31, 2001: Borland just officially announced the Kylix product! Yes, it is available and will start shipping in February end. There are two editions, Kylix Server Developer and Kylix Desktop Developer. Later, an Open Edition will also be released at much lower price. For complete details, please visit the Borland Kylix web site. Here are some information links within the Kylix product web site:
Note for Delphi developers
Comparison of features -- Desktop and Server version
Benefits to Delphi developers
System requirements

January 31, 2001: Kylix is announced with the following press releases from Borland:
Borland Speeds Linux® Into the Mainstream With Kylix™
Borland Radically Simplifies Apache™ Web Server Development
Borland Simplifies Enterprise Data Integration on Linux®
Borland Certifies Major Linux® Distributions for New Kylix™ Development Environment

"Mainstream move for Linux"
An eWEEK article by Peter Coffee

January 23, 2001: Will Borland launch Kylix at the Linux Expo in New York? Let's wait and watch. Borland did announce Kylix Seminars starting from February, 8th at New York, "Get a jump start on developing business applications for Linux by attending this one-day technical seminar..."

"Cross-platform Development"
A Computer Bits article by Homer Jones

"Don’t Be a Windows Muggle"
An article by Eric Binary Anderson (ENT on-line)

"The Life and Death of TButton"
An Under-the-Hood Comparison of the VCL and CLX
A DelphiZine Article by Robert Kozak (of Kylix R&D)

Borland preps Delphi Linux for December preview
By Andrew Orlowski

Kylix going open source?
This week started with some rumors about the source code of Kylix going open source. But in the end, the stories appear to be nothing more than rumors -- By Bob Swart

Borland joins GNOME Foundation Advisory Board
Borland To Support Linux® Desktop With Upcoming Kylix™ Development Platform

Borland to Release CLX Under Dual License, Kylix Will Not be Open Source
By Michael Hall of LinuxToday, at COMDEX

Inprise takes its Linux app tool open source (rumor? Yes, see more news above)
By Roberta Holland, eWEEK

An Interview with Borland's Michael Swindell and Chuck Jazdzewski

Kylix and the State of Delphi
by Michael Bonner

Kylix comes knocking; Lazarus lurks

Our surveys on Kylix
"Will you port your application to Kylix?" and "Will you port your component library to Kylix?"

Dr. Bob's Kylix Kicks

Survey by Inprise Corporation
Participate in this survey and have a direct impact on the future of Borland Delphi

Transcript of the Kylix presentation
From the Linux Development Seminar in Brussels and The Hague.

"Real Programmers Use Pascal!"
An Article by Ray Lischner, the author of "Delphi in a Nutshell."

An Open letter from Borland Rad Tools Group
Comes from Simon Thornhill, Vice President and General Manager of the Borland RAD Tools Group.

BorCon 2000 a.k.a. The Kylix Konvention
by Alan C. Moore, Ph.D.

A Component Builders Chat Transcript
Comes from July 10 conference.

Prepare for Kylix: The Compiler and RTL.

Kylix := Delphi in [Linux]
An About.com article

Kylix is Coming! Delphi and C++ Builder Invade Linux.
From O'Reilly Network

Inprise/Borland will radically simplify Apache™ Web Application Development

DelphiZine.com: The Dish on Kylix - Cross-platform Controls, From Windows to Linux, and Back
by Robert Kozak

Interbase And Kylix Details
From Borland/Inprise

dbExpress (Inprise/Borland's new cross-platform data access layer) Draft Specification
by John Kaster and Ramesh Theivendran

Another article on dbExpress
by Ramesh Theivendran

The Latest Kylix Screen Shots
by John Kaster

Kylix: The Real Lowdown
by Jeroen W. Pluimers

Chuck & Kylix: straight outta Scotts Valley

Editorial: Ruminations on Kylix
by Cub Lea

Kylix: Delphi for Linux is on the Way
by Jeroen W. Pluimers

Two down, one to go
by J.D. Hildebrand

 

  Books on Kylix

 

Please see our Books section.

 

  What is Kylix?

 

What is Kylix? It is Delphi for Linux and Delphi for Windows. It would enable us to write cross-platform solutions. Just imagine, a single development tool to target two platforms! Kylix was officially announced on September 28, 1999. A press release from Inprise/Borland described it as a "a high-performance Linux application-development environment that will support C, C++, and Delphi development." This also means that the initial Kylix will be a Delphi for Linux. But, a C++ Builder equivalent for Linux will also follow it.

If you remember, in the Windows world, the first visual development tool was Visual Basic. Delphi arrived later and converted a whole lot of Visual Basic programmers to Delphi. But, it remained second just because it came later. Imagine what would have happened had it been released before Visual Basic. Now, on Linux, Kylix is going to be the first visual development tool! It will be second to none.

What is the VCL (Visual Component Library) that Kylix will be using? It's called CLX. It's intended for use on both Linux and Windows. Since it is designed for portability, it will have a great future. We can very well expect it to be ported to other platforms too. Using CLX, you will continue writing code for Windows while ensuring that your code works on Linux too, with minimum effort. If you are worrying about the third party components, you would be glad to know that many of them have already started working on creating components for CLX. You should have plenty of choices by the time it gets to be officially released. Moreover, the NetClx (part of CLX) will support Apache Web Application development.

At their 11th annual conference, Borland/Inprise developers actually showed a Kylix IDE running on a Linux box. A demo was also shown of a Kylix application on Linux. Then the same source code was used to create a Windows application. There were other demos too.

Here are some screen shots of Kylix.

 

  Linux for the new developer

 

Finally, if you want information on Linux from the viewpoint of a new developer, please see the excellent article, The Road to Linux, at TurboPower Software.

 

 



 
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