> if I remember correctly instead of properly supporting Linux, they used Wine to make it work, thus it had quite a few issues

Only the IDE was using wine, the deployed applications were native. But the IDE was a bit annoying because of that.

> Secondly, it was trying to sell developer tools to a community that rather spend one month coding an alternative than pay regardless if it is a Starbucks XL cappuccino they would be losing.

You forget, it was after Borland renamed itself to Inprise and wasted all their cash on UML diagram software and other enterprise stuff. So it's not a Starbucks XL cappucino, it's more like a truckload of those.

Also they sold it separately from Delphi, so you ended up paying twice to do cross platform development. It started at 2 x 1k, i think. So 550 to 600 Starbucks XL cappucinos at 2001 pricing.

Besides Starbucks is overpriced, so maybe 900 great coffees from that noname place you accidentally found out about...