Borland vendió a CodeGear

[Ñuño Martínez]

Empezado por mamcx

La respuesta para Latinoamerica:

http://blogs.codegear.com/andreanola...idade-hispana/

De ese texto, yo me quedo con dos cosillas:

The purchase will also help ensure the viability of CodeGear products, he added. "Longstanding customers of those traditional Borland products can be confident that they will go another lap around the track at least. I don't think this is just a buy and kill," O'Kelly said.

Es decir (más o menos), que la compra debería asegurar que CodeGear seguirá funcionando "al menos otra vuelta a la pista". Por lo tanto tendremos Delphi, Builder y demás durante una temporada todavía.

Borland put CodeGear (then the Borland Developers Tools Group) up for sale in February 2006, but failed to find a buyer. In November, the unit was spun off as a wholly-owned subsidiary. O'Kelly said CodeGear fell victim to the double whammy of Microsoft's dev tools dominance and the rise of the Eclipse open source IDE.

"It (Eclipse) basically dropped a revenue neutron bomb on anyone trying to build a profitable dev tools business primarily for non-Microsoft developers," O'Kelly said. "The sad thing about it too is they always have been a good team. Their market was hit by an asteroid -- actually two asteroids."

Aquí habla de la polaridad en el mercado: por un lado el Visual Studio de Microsoft y por otro Eclipse. Tal vez tenga razón, pero Eclipse no me parece un buen producto. Incluso prefiero Lazarus (y eso que está sin terminar) o Dev-C++, incluso. En cualquier caso, si mantienen las versiones Turbo, no debería costar alcanzar la cuota de mercado de Eclipse.