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Borland Developer Group - Here Today, Here Tomorrow?
What’s going on? Sure beats me...14 November 2006
by Huw Collingbourne
Remember back at the start of the year, when Borland decided to ’divest itself’ of its Developer Tools group? Well, in a bizarre twist, it seems Borland has now decided to ’revest’ it again.
So what happened to all those companies who were rumoured to be clamouring to buy the Delphi developers? What indeed? According to the latest news, Borland suddenly had a change of mind. The upshot is that Borland has now formed a spinoff company called CodeGear which will focus on developer tools. Not sure how tightly focussed they’ll be though - apparently, in addition to Delphi, C#, C++ and Java they also want to expand into AJAX, PHP, Python and Ruby.
To be honest, I have yet to figure out whether this is good or bad news. I await developments with interest: