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Borland to retire from the IDE market and focus on ALM

I haven't used a Borland tool for quite a while, but it's always interesting to follow what is happening on their side. I knew Borland mostly for its developer tools. In the past, I've made extensive use of Turbo Pascal, Borland Pascal, Delphi and InterBase. Since then, Borland has published other tools like Kylix (Delphi for Linux), JBuilder, C#Builder or Delphi.NET. All IDE products.
It's not knew at all that they had started getting into the Application Lifecycle Management market, but today come important news: Borland plans a separate company for its IDE products, which means they want to sell these product lines!

You can read the official announcement by the CEO or a message from David Intersimone.

It's true that during the last years, Borland had smaller and smaller market shares for IDEs and fewer resources allocated to them.
The big question is: what will happen in the future for these products? Is this the end? Who will the buyer be, if any?

2 Comments

  • I think that your history with them mirrors my own. :-)



    I think that Borland has now officially died. This sounds to me to be a bean counting decision that does not take into account the need for a continued presense in the mass-market. I wish them well, but expect them to pass into the afterlife in 24-30 months.

  • Borland dead because it dosen't innovate long time ago.

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