Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Feb 2006 17:02 UTC, submitted by aam
"Today Borland announced plans to seek a buyer for our IDE product lines that include Delphi, C++Builder, C#Builder, JBuilder (and Peloton), InterBase, JDataStore, nDataStore, Kylix, and our older Borland and Turbo language products and tools. The goal is to create a standalone business focused on advancing individual developer productivity using the people inside Borland who are focused on the success of these award winning products."
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2006-01-18
After Philip Kahn was kicked out the price hiking took over unfortunately and kicked them out of the core market. (Probably due the Inprise, Business etc... everywhere buzzwords, typical MBA stuff of people who did not understand what Borlands Core business really was)
I can remember, a time when it was around 97 or 98, we were evaluating Corba middleware servers back then, and we settled for one, one day before we placed the order it became official that Inprise bought the company and within that day the price was raised 100% for the server.
There was no discussion anymore that we did not go with Inprise back then but went for Iona which was significantly cheaper after the Inprise price hike.
Back then in those inprise days also the dev tools started to become unaffordable for people who did not have an upgrade option 1-2 years later I personally stopped using the Borland products for personal use due to the pricing.
(I was probably not alone in this, nowadays you cannot find any people who use this stuff as their entries into programming like it used to be)