The best thing that could happen to Lazarus will be being chosen by a Tool like Intraweb as an IDE.
In Brazil,DElphi is heavily used by the ERP industry.
TOTVS,Mega Sistemas,and at least another 20 companies have sucessfull ERPS written on it,and theyŕe all looking
for an architecture to go ahead,and embrace the WEB.
Bradesco uses DElphi to interface the mainframe with PCS in the credit card operation.
Imagine if just the companies that Have millions invested in DElphi gave u$ 100 dollars a month to sponsor FreePascal and Lazarus?
I think the market fail to realize that FPC today is a much more clean language the EMBT one,specially under Linux,and that things are not even better because lack of money.
Unfortunatelly,here in Brazil we DElphi programmers are struggling to survive.
If you know about a company that uses DElphi,leave its name on this thread,maybe people open its eyes.
Marcello