CodeGear has today announced two new products bearing the Delphi name, one of which will target the Win32 platform, while the other will provide a visual development environment for PHP.
The Win32 product, Delphi 2007 (beta codename, ‘Spacely’) follows in the long tradition of Delphi products from Borland (CodeGear’s ‘parent’ company). Unlike the multi-language, dual-platform (Win32/.NET) Borland Developer Studio, Delphi 2007 will be a single-language, (...)
After the Kylix debacle I would be extremely cautious (basically, “no chance”) about paying for a development tool linked to an open source product. AFAICS many of the problems that made it impossible for Borland to support Kylix economically, will also apply to a PHP IDE.
If anyone from Codegear wants to try and convince me otherwise... I’ll be happy to listen.
