See where Borland IDE is going

The "Crow fans" has been tested again. Today, it was reported that Borland wants to sell the IDE department. borl shares on NASDAQ fell in response (a 5-day trend chart from Nasdaq ), but I think this should be good for borland users.

Li Wei wrote an article titled "Borland? This is my opinion and translated David. an article by intersimone titled "Borland Graphic programming languages Delphi, JBuilder, C ++ builder, Interbase, jdatastore, and other development tools for other companies...".

I think this problem should be resolved from at least two aspects. One is the IDE product itself. The other is Borland. As a developer, I think the actual product is more important than an invisible brand. As Li Wei pointed out, the eight-year Rename of Borland to Inprise has a certain impact on the market, but it is still more important for users. Now, if Borland separates the IDE product department and establishes an independent company, it may be better to continue this product line if sufficient resources are available. According to David. I, this result is still worth looking forward to when the development team of the entire product line is separated.

Over the past few years, Borland has become more and more inclined to use the ALM as its core business in the software development service market. In addition, its share price in the Nasdaq Stock Market (for example, from Nasdaq) over the past year is very general. Previously, borl's stock price remained above or below $10 in the past few years, but it has been falling slowly in recent years. In early last April (I don't know why. It should not be because of the. NET trust crisis. One is too professional, and the other is that Microsoft's share price rose. Is it related to personnel changes? Or is it related to the product ?) Even a sudden plunge to the current $6.

With Borland's current resources and strength, it is unlikely that the IDE and Alm business lines will be maintained for a long time. It is inevitable to give up one of them. The development tool market in recent years is not optimistic. The Java platform was suddenly sprung up By eclipse. According to Borland's plan, the JBuilder that lost Blake. Stone had to become the Eclipse plug-in. On the. NET platform, Ms is both an athlete and a referee, and BDS has almost no odds. The market prospects for native development are unknown-although the current market for Native Development on Windows is shrinking much slower than expected (Borland missed a good opportunity here), Ms will eventually be used. net completely eliminates it. In other platforms, the situation is complicated, and Borland failed to test several times. Therefore, Borland's access to ALM is inevitable.

Although Borland IDE is no longer a sad thing in the future, there is at least one hope. Otherwise, if Borland holds the IDE, but the current situation shows that the IDE product line has a small investment, it will be gradually compressed for the benefit of shareholders until it dies. This may be even worse. Borland now decides to separate this business, so the question is: who will pick it up?

Ling Hu asked me who I want to take over. If I don't consider the actual situation, I only want to start from my own wishes, then I still have only one option: Open Source. But as Ling Hu said:

Borland is not a big company, and IDE is also a big business. It is always expected to make a fortune in it. I mean, it still wants to "sell" rather than "throw" it, and open-source it won't even make any final money.

In this regard, I agree that development tools are the root of Borland, so it is impossible to give up completely. From a realistic perspective:

Ms is unlikely to start out of the Anti-Monopoly pressure. It would rather dig out all team members.

Google is also unlikely. After all, development tools are too far away from its core business. It also prefers not to require these products.

However, Oracle may be interested in JBuilder, and its jdeveloper is from JBuilder, so this is important to it.

Why don't you pay for IBM and open source ...... (Do not forget about open source? ^ o ^)

Of course, this post is purely entertaining.

BTW: instant update. Li Wei posted another article titled it was born!