Scotts Valley, CA — (press release excerpt) — Borland Software Corp. 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 according to a new report published by software market research firm Evans Data Corporation.

The 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.”

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 operating systems.

 
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