Speaking of Borland

Since Borland stripped codegear out, I have basically not followed Borland any more. I 'd like to look at what new messages come from acquaintances in codegear, such as Li Wei or David intersimone.

In
Previously, Borland's most "new" news was that Borland was acquired by Microsoft focus for $ May 6 on June 1, 75 million, us time.
Philip Kahn was at Borland's peak. She was the third largest software provider in the world (I remember that she was not listed at the top of the list as Microsoft ).
When fuller revived Borland, the amount of cash placed in the bank alone exceeded $0.1 billion ...... I didn't expect it to be so worthless now.

After receiving this message, I didn't even think about anything to write.

However, this time I accidentally saw Borland's name again, so I was a little excited.

That
I went to sap China Research Institute to attend a NetWeaver technology lecture. In the meantime, we will introduce NetWeaver Composite
In developer studio of environment, the lecturer introduced that DS is actually an eclipse
3.2, but added a lot of plug-ins specially developed for nwce, including graphical modeling. To prove that this plug-in is very Nb, he revealed that in fact, all the plug-ins used here are Borland
The graphic modeling tool developed by SAP is actually Borland's together.

In fact, this is nothing. Borland is actually Nb. In the Java age
In the early days, Borland may be one of the most Nb-Java developers. It is rumored that a considerable part of Sun's Java base library was developed by Borland. For Oracle
Jdeveloper is Borland's JBuilder.

What about that.

After Anders hejlsberg, Chuck jazdzeski, and Danny Thorpe left one after another, Delphi/C ++ builder would not work. After black stone leaves, JBuilder will not work either.

I already said
Borland
Wrong Path in the past few years .. The net platform is ms. On this platform that is not yet stable (it should be nice to say that it is "advancing with the times"), it is impossible for you to compete with vs.net in MS, because you will never
It cannot be faster than it. Although the Java platform is stable and open, Borland's Java middleware has no share in the market, and other major middleware vendors are working hard
In the case of Eclipse, JBuilder should also change to eclipse.

My advice at the time was that Borland should focus on its own advantages,
On the one hand, we continue to maintain and expand the original Native Development market, and on the other hand, we use plug-ins to penetrate the vs.net and eclipse markets. Unfortunately, it was a bit late in 05 when I proposed it.
But codegear is coming back in this direction later. If they were able to wake up early-for example, in-then they would go to Ms, IBM, SAP,
Oracle (& Bea & Sun) is working as a plug-in, and it may be better now.

But now ......

If there is anything worth mentioning, it is at least the codegear group is still there, so it retains the remaining breath of Borland. In addition, since the acquisition by Embarcadero, these groups have all been eager to make a little bigger, in order to revitalize their voice.

Single
From a technical point of view, now they begin to adopt JSON as the new basis of distributed technology, and re-focus on compiler R & D. In addition, it should be said that these php development tools are more beneficial.
But I personally think it is a little biased-because they do not pay enough attention to Dynamic Language. Although it is said that ROR will also be involved, it will not be too long.

I recently tried a Web framework of Python: web2py. I feel that its function can be used to easily develop desktop applications in Web mode-it can run independently without an additional Python environment.ProgramIt can be compiled and published. It is developed in pure Web mode (equivalent to a rad that runs in a browser ).

This
Although it was not long before, it has been very powerful, and thanks to Python's resource accumulation over the past decade, I personally think this mode may represent an important development direction for desktop applications in the future. Of course
Traditional GUI applications are still needed under some specific circumstances, but the problem is that even Photoshop has launched a web version, and the trend is obvious.

When web desktop applications become mainstream, desktop OS is no longer important. In fact, half of my computers are installed with Ubuntu, especially the new 9.04. After using the ext4 file system, the switching speed is faster than that of XP, the compiz interface is more fancy than Vista, and the hardware compatibility is also greatly improved. In addition to Windows and Linux, MacOS also has a certain market.

On the other hand, the application software is also expanded from traditional desktop to netbook, mid, mobile phone and other devices. In addition to windows, there are also Linux (in addition to traditional Desktop Linux, including moblin specially crafted for mid by Intel), symbianos, android ...... Different input methods have different display specifications. on different operating systems, if you want to write a program to run everywhere, the results may be poor everywhere.

Obama said:

Change!

It is time to change the development method. Web applications are a direction that needs to be changed in traditional GUI applications. Codegear is now light-loaded. I don't know if I can make my own changes before the bulky Java and. Net changes, or I can participate in the Java and. Net changes.

What they need is a leader like Anders.

As for that, Anders hejlsberg will return to Embarcadero next month (which should be May) the rumor is basically a fake message-the earliest source I can find is a message posted on Twitter on April 29 at Jan (Beijing time ).
:

Rumor: Anders hejlsberg will leave Microsoft and join Embarcadero next month

This person is located in Hangzhou ......

About a week later, Borland was acquired, and the rumor began to spread widely in China.