Borland Kylix emerges as leading Linux application development solution

Issued by Global Research Partners for Borland Software
Johannesburg, 08 Nov 2001

Borland Software Corporation, a leading provider of e-business platform solutions, today announced that its rapid application development (RAD) environment for the Linux platform, Borland Kylix has been ranked as the most used integrated development environment (IDE) by Linux developers. The research was conducted and published by Evans Data Corporation, a market research firm focused on the software development community.

The Evans Data Linux Developer Survey, Volume II, 2001 found that Kylix is already in use by a significant percentage of developers. "For a long time, many developers with extensive Windows experience have considered the tools on Linux to be primitive," said Lou Grinzo, Evans Data Linux analyst. "Now that a serious, full-featured development environment has been ported to Linux, developers jumped on it with both feet. This is part of the conversion of Linux programmers to more modern methods that will ease the way for Windows developers moving to Linux."

"The results of the Evans Data survey confirm that Kylix is the best-in-class offering that is gaining rapid acceptance as the development environment of choice for Linux developers," said Manoli Rodokanakis, Country Manager for Borland Southern Africa. "As Linux continues to emerge as a mainstream operating system, Kylix is uniquely positioned to enable enterprises of all sizes to develop industry-leading applications."

For further information, please contact Borland Southern Africa on tel (011) 622-1635, or fax (011) 622-1534, or visit the local or international Web sites www.borland.co.za or www.borland.com

Borland Kylix

Borland Kylix is a high-performance rapid application development (RAD) environment for the Linux platform. Kylix is a component-based environment for two-way visual development of graphical user interface (GUI), Internet, database and server applications. Kylix is powered by a new high-speed native Delphi compiler for Linux and implements a native Linux and cross-platform version of the Borland Visual Component Library (VCL) architecture called CLX. CLX is designed to radically speed native Linux application development and simplify the porting of Delphi applications between Windows and Linux.

Borland Software Corporation

Borland is a leading provider of high performance e-business implementation platforms designed to increase developer productivity and reduce time to market for enterprise software projects. E-business implementation platforms consist of software products that allow businesses to develop, deploy and manage e-business applications. Borland is the vendor of choice for professional e-business solution providers who demand a vendor-independent implementation platform that supports rapid time to market, high productivity, performance and availability. Founded in 1983, Borland is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, with operations worldwide.

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