The main problem is that the companies don't use pascal. Delphi is an exception and it is regulary used in companies but I don't think Lazarus is an alternative as it is still under heavy development and it is not the best choise for database programming. Companies don't mind to spend money if they get quality for it.

My opinion is that the GTK 1 interface is too ugly if you want to develop a commercial program. Lazarus should support the Windows gui and qt support would be very nice for both Open Source and commercial programmers.