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Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud. We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
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Yakov Fain's Java Blog: "Valentine's Present Ideas: Borland IDE"
If you are the real man, buy a bunch of Borland's IDEs and give it to her tonight. But do it nicely. Surprise her.

If you are the real man, buy a bunch of Borland's IDEs and give it to her tonight. But do it nicely. Surprise her. She comes back from work, and sees a  little table covered with a white cloth. Put a boring bottle of Champaign and  flowers right on top. After the regular kiss-and-love-you, slowly lift up the table cloth and show her the pile of boxes with the award-winning Borland Developer Studio (Delphi, C++Builder and C#Builder) and JBuilder. I promise, after the dinner you'll have the best sex ever.

But in the morning, Borland’s announcement about getting rid of their IDEs  will  live a bitter taste in your mouth. At least it did in mine. 

For me, Borland was always THE IDE firm. I remember Borland’s Turbo C++ compiler... Back in 1992 I’ve purchased an excellent book by Robert Lafore “Object-Oriented Programming in Turbo C++”. After reading this book and trying the IDE my life was changed. Borland was always ahead of all in the IDE space. Then Philip Khan left the company, the company remained afloat, but something has been lost forever. Now they are getting rid of all IDEs. I’m not a businessman, but something in this announcement is not right. If you do not need a product line, quietly find a buyer and make an announcement afterward. But just standing at the corner and screaming “Buy me, anyone…” sounds so cheap. Remember “Pretty Woman”? She got lucky. But will Borland find its Richard Gere? As  they put it in the movie, the last time it happened was the story of cindy-fng-rella. It may happen again… Anyway, I wish Borland the best with their upcoming Eclispe version of JBuilder called Peloton that should be previewed in the next EclipseCon show.

Another one bites the dust. Who’s left in the Non-free Java IDE Store? Just JetBrains' IDEA and IBM's RAD. Hang in there, guys…

posted Tuesday, 14 February 2006

About Yakov Fain
Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. SYS-CON Books released his latest co-authored book , Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters in Spring 2007. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Yakov co-athored the O'Reilly book "Enterprise Application Development with Flex". He twits at twitter.com/yfain.

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This is probably just wishful thinking - but maybe Delphi and C++Builder will now become open source??

If you are the real man, buy a bunch of Borland's IDEs and give it to her tonight. But do it nicely. Surprise her. She comes back from work, and sees a little table covered with a white cloth. Put a boring bottle of Champaign and flowers right on top. After the regular kiss-and-love-you, slowly lift up the table cloth and show her the pile of boxes with the award-winning Borland Developer Studio (Delphi®, C++Builder and C#Builder) and JBuilder. I promise, after the dinner you'll have the best sex ever.


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Anonymous Coward wrote: This is probably just wishful thinking - but maybe Delphi and C++Builder will now become open source??
SYS-CON Australia News Desk wrote: If you are the real man, buy a bunch of Borland's IDEs and give it to her tonight. But do it nicely. Surprise her. She comes back from work, and sees a little table covered with a white cloth. Put a boring bottle of Champaign and flowers right on top. After the regular kiss-and-love-you, slowly lift up the table cloth and show her the pile of boxes with the award-winning Borland Developer Studio (Delphi®, C++Builder and C#Builder) and JBuilder. I promise, after the dinner you'll have the best sex ever.
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