Comments on: Will Borland Survive Yet Another Crisis? http://blog.martinig.ch/news/what-is-left-at-borland/ Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:59:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: rainwebs http://blog.martinig.ch/news/what-is-left-at-borland/comment-page-1/#comment-6966 rainwebs Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:14:46 +0000 http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=198#comment-6966 Roy, the debacle began when they thought they had to skip their flagship products and become an big Enterprise player. All this Inprise stuff was nonsense from the first day on. None of the loyal customers could understand this change in mind. They never had the standing for such a change of the target market. Well, today they are history. They had the chance to set standards like Eclipse is doing it today. Even the first releases of JBuilder could compete with the visual development tools and component ideas of todays Eclipse plugins. I really miss the innovation according the I in IDE and also the very well thought RAD implementations of a Delphi in the Java world in the 1990ies. Roy, the debacle began when they thought they had to skip their flagship products and become an big Enterprise player. All this Inprise stuff was nonsense from the first day on. None of the loyal customers could understand this change in mind. They never had the standing for such a change of the target market.

Well, today they are history. They had the chance to set standards like Eclipse is doing it today. Even the first releases of JBuilder could compete with the visual development tools and component ideas of todays Eclipse plugins. I really miss the innovation according the I in IDE and also the very well thought RAD implementations of a Delphi in the Java world in the 1990ies.

]]> By: Roy Batty http://blog.martinig.ch/news/what-is-left-at-borland/comment-page-1/#comment-6941 Roy Batty Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:56:46 +0000 http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=198#comment-6941 I cut my professional programming chops using Borland C++ for DOS. It'll be kind of sad to see them go, if it comes down to that. They drove the industry in many ways. I cut my professional programming chops using Borland C++ for DOS.

It’ll be kind of sad to see them go, if it comes down to that. They drove the industry in many ways.

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