Comments on: Borland finally sells its CodeGear tools division

After looking for a buyer for two years, Borland Software sells CodeGear to Embarcadero Technologies for about $23 million.

[rexworld]

Sad end for Borland tools

It's clear that there's very little value or life left in those tools. It was over two years ago that Borland first talked about selling off the tools group:

http://www.news.com/2100-1012_3-6036734.html

Two years of looking for a buyer and all they manage to scrounge up is some specialty software company willing to blow $23 million on the remains of the Borland IDE tools.

It's been a slow and lingering death for the Borland IDE tools. But I'm guessing this sale is just about the final nail in that coffin.

[LuvThatCO2]

A new life for Delphi?

Hopefully the new owners will sink the required effort into CodeGear's development tools, and not treat them like a red-headed stepchild the way borland did. For years Borland basically milked the dev tools as a way to support Borland's ALM products that no one wanted. I'm glad to see CodeGear now out from underneath Borland. Lets just hope Embarcadero isnt buyit it just to do the same.

To this day Delphi is the best native code windows development tool, and the only major (non-java) commerical competitor to MS's Visual Studio.

[Orion Blastar]

So much for the Borland Museum

that used to give away free copies of Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo C++. We were hoping for a Delphi 1.0 give away from the Borland Museum.