Borland and Delphi Officially Dead

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Some of you may not have heard, but yesterday May 7 2008, Borland officially sold off their developer tools division. This includes all their past technologies like Tubro Pascal, Turbo Assembler, Delphi, JBuilder, Borland C, C++Builder to name a few.

 

All sold for scratch at $23 million.

 

That after having been picked apart by Microsoft for years losing key people like Anders Hejlsberg after Delphi 3 shipped, Chuck Jazdzewski after Delphi 5, Danny Thorpe after Delphi 6, and other key people like Paul Gross, Blake Stone, and Charlie Calvert.

 

So anyhow, after hearing about the final demise of Delphi and Borland's other developer tool I decided to check out what exactly Borland was left with this morning by checking out their site.

 

The first product on Borland's product list Tempo, a tool which supposedly helps IT organizations dramatically improve the visibility and control their IT portfolio.

 

Really, that's what their claiming. They also claim with this tool "IT leaders can implement practices to efficiently identify and select the best technology investments to be made organization wide."

 

Interesting, and they claim this is the cornerstone of their IT governance solutions.

 

Wow, so now using Borland's tools any IT company can manage their technology effectively, just as Borland has.

 

Wait, what!? Borland is telling me that they can help my company make IT decisions? Ahhh hahahahahaha! That's just too funny.

 

Just how delusional are the people at Borland?

 

Do they really think IT people aren't going to realize Borland has been so massively mismanaged and driven into the ground? What IT manager would possibly rely on them for advise on how to manage their company?

 

Incredulous!

 

 

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