Posts belonging to Category Borland

Borland finally sells its CodeGear tools division

From CNET News:

Borland Software has sold its CodeGear development tools division to Embarcadero Technologies for about $23 million, the companies said Wednesday.
CodeGear sells the products that Borland used to be best known for–its JBuilder Java development tool, Delphi, and C++Builder. More recently, CodeGear has created development tools for PHP and Ruby.
Two years ago, Borland CEO [...]

Borland – “I Come to You With Open… ALM!!?”

There are times when I wish what happens in Vegas would STAY in Vegas. This is one of those times. Borland CEO Tod Nielsen presented this Borland Sales Kick Off Video for the 2008 year. It’s him in all his tone-deaf karaoke glory singing “I Come To You With Open Alm” to [...]

JBuilder 2007 Install Tip – Turn off your Anti-Virus

I just spent the weekend fighting with installing JBuilder 2007. When the installer would say something would take 5 minutes – it took 90. And the installation would usually end up failing. I figured out that in my case my antivirus package (F-Prot) was the culprit. Excluding the JBuilder installation directory [...]

Why Yakov Fain is a schmuck…

The short answer is because of this entry to the Princeton JUG head’s Java Dev Journal blog:
http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/jbuilder_2007__they_must_be_crazy.htm
Quote:
I personally do not even have time to try it even if they’d given it to me for free.
So, this “review” is nothing more than complaining about the price tag. This COULD be a great IDE but [...]

Borland… DevCo… CodeGear… A Rose by any other name..

So Borland’s developer tool division (formerlly referred to as DevCo) has become CodeGear – a wholly-owned subsidary of Borland. Apparently Borland couldn’t find a decent buyer so they decided to set the group up as their own shop. I think that’s probably the best of all possible outcomes.
The developer tools market is a [...]

Running JBuilder 2006 on Mac OS/X

My friend Lori over at DragonSharp figured out how to get JBuilder 2006 running on OS/X. Nicely done, Lori!Script for running JBuilder 2006 on Mac (Tiger) at How Sharper than a Dragon’s…

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