Thoughts on Borland's IDE sales

These two days, news about Borland's sales of the IDE business has stirred up. I can't help but talk about my thoughts. It can be said that Microsoft's. net gets stuck in the neck of Delphi and C ++ Builder, while Eclipse beat Jbuilder. What's more terrible is that Eclipse's centripetal force is also increasing. Let's look at the development of Eclipse plug-ins, it is already extending to PHP, python, and other fields.

The root cause of Borland's IDE failure is that the focus of the development community is no longer on the competition of IDE. IDE is an important reference factor, not a deciding factor. Everyone's eyes are on various frameworks and new concepts. Let's take a look at the number of excellent open-source projects in Java over the past few years and learn a lot of new ideas .. NET also has many open-source projects that are ported from JAVA. On the other hand, Delphi doesn't feel any innovation. The more we upgrade, the more disappointing we get. Anyway, after seeing Delphi8, we lose confidence in Borland. Jbuilder fails because Eclipse is too powerful. Eclipse is not only an IDE, but also an advanced design concept.

Therefore, Borland's purchase of the IDE product line is a correct decision. But what about Borland's future IT management, demand definition, software cycle quality management, and change management? Don't worry about Borland's failure to make things, just because the open-source projects will have outstanding performance in these aspects. What Should Borland do?