This news comes some days ago, that Borland Corporation build a new company CodeGear to maintain their developer tools. So that including C++Builder, Delphi, and JBuilder, will released by another logo marked CodeGear in next year or the future. Today i received a newsletter from CodeGuru.com, the editor Brad wrote the following:
If someone were to ask for a list of the companies that have
developed some of the greatest tools of their time, I’d include
companies like Aston-Tate and Borland. Borland was the leader
in the C++ developer tool market in the 1980s and early 90s. Last year, Borland decided to divest itself of its developer
tools. More recently, instead of selling the division, the
developer tools were spun off. They are now within the company
CodeGear. This past week, CodeGear has shown that it is continuing
to move forward by releasing JBuilder 2007.While Aston-Tate and DBase are only memories to many of us, Borland’s
tools continue to move along. We’ll see if CodeGear gives them new life
or if it is just another step along the path to becoming a memory like
Aston-Tate and DBase. The release of JBuilder 2007 seems to be a step
in the right direction to keep the legacy going.
Since i started to learn programming from my university times, i had known something about Borland. I like their Turbor Series Compilers very much, for instance, Turbo C++ 3.0 is my favorite one. Even now i keep a copy in my computer for memory. 5 years ago, i graduated from university, and started to learn Delphi, some months later, i thought Delphi must be the best IDE of the world. But since that, Borland focus on Delphi upgrading, not extending Delphi Users, so that the market of Delphi and other Borland Tools became smaller and smaller. It’s not mistaken for Borland, but it’s destiny.
