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February 8, 2006Borland puts up Delphi for salePosted 1667 days ago on February 8, 2006Sad day. Borland is getting out of the IDE business. Key quote: Borland announced plans to seek a buyer for the portion of its business associated with the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), including the award-winning Borland Developer Studio (Delphi®, C++Builder® and C#Builder®) and JBuilder® product lines. I'm sad about JBuilder, but this is not really news since we already knew that JBuilder 2006 was the last of its line. Delphi and C++Builder on the other hand are to my mind the heart and soul of the company. This is the end for Borland C and Borland Turbo Pascal. Of course they might get a new lease of life from whoever purchases them. History suggests that this is unlikely. When I think of IDE products that have been passed around from company to company (Visual Café; dBase; Paradox) I think of products that have either disappeared or shrunk into tiny niches. I understand the business reasons. Borland's Raaj Shinde told me a year ago that: ...the Borland SDO [Software Delivery Optimization] solution is going to be built on two primary platforms. One is Eclipse, the other is Visual Studio. These are indeed the two IDE platforms that matter these days. Still, Delphi 2006 looked like a new dawn for Delphi, at least in the medium term while people still care about Win32 development. Maybe more once I've listened to the conference call. Re: Borland puts up Delphi for salePosted 1640 days ago by Adrian • • • Reply
When you have a company in the IT business and want to make a success out of it, you must ask yourself " What makes you special, what's your competitive advantage ?' Re: Borland puts up Delphi for salePosted 1640 days ago by Tim Anderson • • • Reply
Yes, the lack of marketing for Delphi has long been a puzzle. Somehow Borland seemed to give up trying to promote Delphi to users of other tools and resigned itself to a sizeable but limited niche. Re: Borland puts up Delphi for salePosted 1640 days ago by Phil Hackett • • • Reply
As a long term Delphi developer I've thought that Borland have lacked the direction they've needed with their IDEs in recent years. I honestly think that declaring them Open Source as somebody suggested above, would probably be the best way of ensuring a future for them. In fact, in wouldn't surprise me if the buyers simply use this as an opportunity to elimate the competition. Re: Borland puts up Delphi for salePosted 1640 days ago by Tim Anderson • • • ReplyFunny should mention Chrome; I'm investigating it right now. Re: Borland puts up Delphi for salePosted 1640 days ago by Phil Hackett • • www • ReplyA move from Delphi to Chrome should be relatively inexpensive: Both Chrome and Visual Studio (Standard Edition is fine) allow you to buy upgrade versions, in order to move up from Delphi (total cost around £230), and you can continue to use your original Delphi as needed after the upgrade (I've checked with Microsoft and RemObjects). Then if for some reason you feel the need you can abandon Chrome later, side-stepping to C#, safe in the knowledge that you've now got some idea about .net programming, that it's pretty much the same regardless of language and that any libraries/components you've written are still usable. I'm sold! Just waiting for a delivery of software now... Re: Borland puts up Delphi for salePosted 1630 days ago by Ali • • • Reply
There were times when we heard that Microsoft OS is for x86 architecture only and all Microsoft software will run on 'Windoze' only............. Re: Borland puts up Delphi for salePosted 1589 days ago by Rod • • • Reply
As a professional software developer with over 1.7 million lines of code written in Borland pascal I would like to see Delphi survive. |
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Re: Borland puts up Delphi for sale
Posted 1641 days ago by Dave Jones • • • ReplyI have liked using Delphi since version 2.0. I always thought that Borland should return to their roots with Delphi and make it a low cost Pascal development system, rather than a very expensive corporate development platform. i.e. Turbo Pascal rather than Visual Studio.
Now that they have decided to sell the IDE, the potential buyers are probably very few. My suggestion would be to Open Source it. The Windows platform needs a good low cost development tool that will capture the hearts and minds of the hoobyist or small start-up that can't afford Visual Studio.