[techtalk] programming question... (theory)

[Walt]

Our company has somewhat of a delimma...

We cannnot seem to find a software
package on the market today to fit our
business' needs, so, we are planning to
have a program written for our organization.

My brother-in-law is a programmer with
almost exclusive experience with Delphi.
Yet, because of my exposure to the general
Linux community, perhaps, or maybe just my
own limited experience, I tend to greatly
prefer C/C++. So, although, we would like to
be able to hire him to do the work, I don't
want to be stuck with Delphi code that I
can't edit or compile without purchasing
Borland's Delphi...

The software would be a server "suite" that
would track physical jobs throughout our shop
based on which barcode scanner they are
scanned at and store that information in a
database that would then be accessible from
client computers. Naturally, I would like the
server-end to reside on a linux box...

What (if any) are the advantages of Delphi
over C++? Vice-a-versa? I understand
Borland's Kylix product is a Delphi development
environment for Linux. Does anyone have
experience with both languages to offer a
comparison?

Appreciate any input!

Thank y'all,
Walt

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