Borland Kylix 1.0 Desktop Developer Edition

by Borland

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000059TCR
• Item model number: HDC7010WWFS180
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,323 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Kylix Desktop Developer Edition, a RAD tool for Linux, is designed to accelerate your Linux GUI development. Kylix combines a fast compiler with a productive visual design environment and GUI development, allowing you to build sophisticated end-user GUI applications with drag-and-drop development. CLX delivers a comprehensive palette of reusable, customizable, and extensible components for rapidly building GUI and desktop database applications. You can use the CLX source code to quickly build your own custom components or reuse and extend the base components to further accelerate your development speed.

Quickly integrate with desktop databases using dbExpress high-speed database drivers to InterBase and MySQL. With compile times of over 4,000,000 lines per minute, your application runs immediately. Kylix's optimized native-code compiler allows your applications to run with the same speed as C/C++ applications.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow -- I didn't know this was possilble, March 7, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Borland Kylix 1.0 Desktop Developer Edition (CD-ROM)

Borland has done it this time. This is the only mature Linux development platform I have seen. The level of functionality is amazing for a first version, and the database connectivity is well thought out and very quick. This product may be able to revolutionize the Linux world -- allowing developers to quickly produce mature Linux based programs. I am working on a corporate project now, and with this development tool available I am seriously considering the deployment of Linux based client machines into the back-office -- thereby significantly reducing overall hardware, software, and maintenance costs.

I converted some old Delphi programs with relatively little trouble; although they were simple and I am sure more complicated programs would take some work. The lack of integrated connectivity to EJB is disappointing, but I read on the Borland web site that it will be coming later this year. In the mean time there are some work arounds to get connected to my EJB services. It is well worth the pain since I can get fast client applications from Kylix, which I can't get from Java.

1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delphi for Linux, March 21, 2001

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"weyrick" (Fishkill, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Borland Kylix 1.0 Desktop Developer Edition (CD-ROM)

Kylix truely brings RAD to the Linux world. Delphi developers will be right at home, as the IDE and components libraries are very similiar.