![]() Many help files are available for download in chm and inf format. The Lazarus IDE is licensed under the GNU General Public License. The Lazarus Component Library is licensed under a modified GNU Lesser There is a wiki with a lot of information around Lazarus at. It is freely available, open source and completely written in Free Lazarus is a Rapid Application Development tool for Free PascalĪnd currently runs on Linux, Mac OS X, BSD and of course Windows. If the rendering is insufficient you may try to find and view the page on the lazarus-2.2. project site itself. You can here alternatively try to browse the pure source code or just view or download the uninterpreted raw source code. There was no discussion anymore that we did not go with Inprise back then but went for Iona which was significantly cheaper after the Inprise price hike.īack then in those inprise days also the dev tools started to become unaffordable for people who did not have an upgrade option 1-2 years later I personally stopped using the Borland products for personal use due to the pricing.Caution: In this restricted "Fossies" environment the current HTML page may not be correctly presentated and may have some non-functional links. ![]() I can remember, a time when it was around 97 or 98, we were evaluating Corba middleware servers back then, and we settled for one, one day before we placed the order it became official that Inprise bought the company and within that day the price was raised 100% for the server. (Probably due the Inprise, Business etc… everywhere buzzwords, typical MBA stuff of people who did not understand what Borlands Core business really was) Only an IBM has made more mistakes in the past and survived.Īfter Philip Kahn was kicked out the price hiking took over unfortunately and kicked them out of the core market. It is a wonder that this stuff has not happened way longer before and that Borland still is alive. So that the devs were forced to fork the codebase away to have the product even survive and be further developed in a sane manner.Īctually most of the problems Borland nowadays has are self caused, and they do not have anything to do with the quality of the product but more with the management having been on a curvy course since the days when Philip Kahn was kicked out of the company. Linux could work, but that strategy was shot down after their initial offering did not raise any money (no long term strategy like Microsoft but instant cash has to be made)Īnd the db market basically was abandoned in the mid nineties by not pushing the back then exceptionally good Inprise more but having constantly the sword of killing it off on top of it. On the windows side Borland got severe pressure from Microsoft with their. (Yes I know JBuilder for instance still has entry and professional versions but compared to similar offerings from Eclipse and Netbeans they are a joke) So we have a fair tools for a fair price situation again, but not with Borland. Well now we have a situation of a Borland still wanting major bucks for features you can get already for a fair price or free again. Then the bubble faded, Borland basically pushed sometimes to major updates within a year to raise money on the tools (I am talking about JBuilder here)Īnd also. This still worked due to the fact of being in the middle of a Dot Bomb bubble. Then came Inprise and the we buy a product and then we raise the prise to the sky and then we do not know what to do with it strategy. And the price was really fair with Enterprise (back then professional) editions being 100-200 dollars. It was more along the lines of switching to Inprise than back to Borland.ĭuring the heydeys of Philip Kahn Borland hat the motto, fair tools for a fair price. ![]() Tools going down the drain was the fault of Borland itself.
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