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Borland Divests IDEs to Focus on ALM

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the change-of-pace dept.

ShinyBrowncoat writes "Borland recently announced they are putting their IDE business up for sale (JBuilder, Delphi, etc.)." This move comes at the same time Borland announced they would be aggressively pushing forward with their Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) business by purchasing Segue Software Inc.

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  1. Still in Business? by drewzhrodague · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, Borland is still in business? I remember that I never got Turbo C to compile the examples that were in the book that came with it. I blame them for me not being such a great programmer.

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  2. Re:Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Since the story was submitted by ShinyBrowncoat, maybe we could buy Firefly too?

    Borland Firefly. It has a ring to it.

    Take my love, take my land
    Take me where I cannot stand
    I don't care, I'm still free
    You can't take my I D E ...

  3. Re:JBuilder plugin by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Funny

    maybe you could refactor it as a duplicate /. story detector.

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  4. Re:Oh Great!... by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny
    Just reading the buzzspeak in the article makes me want to toss my cookies!
    Nielsen explained some of the planning that went into his decision.

    "I've been here for 75 days, and one of the things I did early on is I set up 100 one-on-ones with various people in the company to find out what was going on," he said.

    "And one of the things that I found was the core management team before I got here spent a lot of time laying the ground work for what Borland needs to do. And in addition to spending time with employees I spent time with customers. And whenever I talked to customers they said the weakest link in every IT organization is the dysfunctional software development process. No one's really solved that."

    Of Segue, Nielsen said, "They have great products in the quality space. We talk about software delivery optimization, they talk about software quality optimization."

    "Great products in the quality space" BLLAAAAAAARRRPHHH!!!!
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