-----Original Message----- From: A.J. Venter Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 9:35 AM To: lazarus Subject: [lazarus] Lazarus to ship with OpenLab 2.0 Hi all, Just thought you would all like to know, that when DireqLearn (http://www.direqlearn.org) ships version 2.0 of our OpenLab thin-client solution for schools in June, Lazarus will be included as the default developement enviroment. This will place lazarus in over 2000 schools across Africa, where it will be used for computer science classes by almost 18000 pupils. The computer science curiculim in most African countries does not include any RAD work, being largely commandline pascal, but doing this inside lazarus will provide a proper IDE, and a natural road of progression towards RAD for those pupils who choose to pursue programming careers later on. The final shipping will be with most stable version available for the June launch. I have been looking at lazarus as a tool for this purpose for some time, and followed it's developement. I think that lazarus as it stands now, especially considdering the current rate of developement, is worthy of a large scale deployment such as this, it may not be quite ready for a lot of commercial work yet, but that too will come. I just thought you guys would like to know :-) -- Story of my life: "Semper in excretum, set alta variant" A.J. Venter DireqLearn Linux Guru _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.