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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Gary Wiltshire
date: 2006-02-10 18:14:36
subject: Re: End of an era...Borland to quite doing IDE`es?

From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:25:25 -0500, Antti Kurenniemi
 wrote:

> "Adam"  wrote in message
> news:43ea1e04{at}w3.nls.net...
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29561
>>
>> "SOFTWARE FIRM Borland said it wants a buyer for its Integrated
>> Developer
>> Environment (IDE) - that includes Developer Studio, C++ Builder,
>> C#Builder
>> and JBuilder.
>>
>> It also said it's bought Segue Software, a company that provides quality
>> and testing software. It wants to build up the Application Lifecycle
>> Management (ALM) part of its business."
>>
>>
>> The power of eclipse.....? Or just the steady death of pascal?
>
> Good riddance to their latest IDE's! I'm hoping they get back to the
> basics,
> though, and keep developing Delphi the language and VCL. The past three
> versions of their IDE's have just plain sucked - I wonder who'd buy them?
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

Not me!  Plus, I don't want to screw around with customers running earlier
Windows and machines to get .Net installed just so they can run my
applications.  VCL and classic Windows32 API suit me just fine.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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