再见 Borland！再也没有Borland Delphi 了。Borland 要卖掉开发工具生产线.(10分)

再见 Borland！再也没有Borland Delphi 了。Borland 要卖掉开发工具生产线.
Borland打算把开发工具独立到一个新公司里面，专心做ALM。
Borland plans separate company for Delphi, JBuilder, C++Builder, InterBase, JDataStore and other developer products...
To our loyal developer community:
Today, Wednesday February 8, 2006 at 1am Pacific Time, 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.
It is not a trivial decision to separate our IDE business from our ALM business. As we look back over the past two years and how we have operated as a company, we have continually had to weigh every do
llar investment in our ALM and developer products. All too often we have chosen to invest in ALM, because of our stated direction around ALM growth and market opportunity. But we all know that our loyal customer base demands more. There is tremendous potential that has been untapped due to the company's focus towards an enterprise go-to-market model, with an emphasis on a more consultative, lifecycle sale forcing us to invest more into our ALM products, ALM marketing, and our enterprise field model. This is a very different model from our mostly channel-focused, direct-to-developer marketing, and delivery model (using shrink wrapped boxes and e-shop do
wnloads).
Focus is a key success factor in business. With this announcement, both companies will have the focus they need to thrive and help our customers be successful. I think it’s great that Borland is letting us be part of a new focused company that brings together the team that is passionate about developers and development. We want to continue to create the best solutions and technology for the benefit of you, our community of developers. We are developers working on developer products for our customers who are developers. This is a special relationship that is unique in software. We get to work on products that we use ourselves and that our developer community love.
I started using Turbo Pascal v1.0 in November of 1983 when Philippe Kahn gave me a copy at Comdex Las Vegas. I put it in my IBM PC and knew immediately that this was something different. From that day, I knew I wanted to go to work for Borland. I started working at Borland on June 17, 1985 and for the past 20+ years I have had the pleasure of being a part of a great company and a great community of software developers. I’ve had the luxury and pleasure to manage the compiler group in R&D in the early Turbo Language days. For the past 15 years I’ve run Developer Relations allowing me (and our team) to travel around the world to visit with tens of thousands of programmers. I get to come to work every day and collaborate with the best developer focused software engineers on the planet.
I’m really excited to be moving to the new company. We’ve got the right team members, we’ve got the tool and component partner eco-system, we have the authors, trainers, consultants, and we have the most important part – a loyal community. Our new company will be focused completely on you and your success. Yes, both companies will have a focus on software development. Both are going to advance the state-of-the-art and best practices. They’ll just do
it in different ways. Ours will do
it by focusing on developer productivity and building great application development products using our award winning IDEs, tools, component libraries, class libraries, and database technologies. Borland will do
it by addressing the needs of larger organizations, helping them optimize their software delivery.
I was asked today by Daryl Taft of eWeek magazine, "As Borland's longest term employee, how do
es the spin-off hit you?" I answered by saying, I am moving forward as part of the new company with a huge smile on my face and a small tear in my eye.
I want to assure all of you that we are here in Scotts Valley, and around the world, working on future versions of Delphi, JBuilder and our other products. We are still listening to your needs, issues, and suggestions. We are tracking with the new platform initiatives for Windows, .NET, Java, open standards, and emerging technologies that you want to leverage.
This is the right thing to do
for our IDE business. It's the right thing to do
for Borland's ALM focus. Our priority is to ensure a smooth and successful migration for our developer customer base, and create a vehicle for giving it greater investment, focus and growth. This is not the shutting do
wn of a product line, but the empowering of it. This move is in the best interests of our customers, company, and community.
The buyer of our IDE product lines has not yet been identified, but I and other members of our developer team are working with Borland's executive management to ensure that we identify the right buyer who will advance the IDE business. Borland is committed to its customers first and foremost, and taking care of their ongoing needs. We will keep you informed along the journey.
Go Borland. Go New Company. Go Developers!!!
转载 from http://blogs.borland.com/davidi/

win32平台下搞不过MS。
java平台被IBM给坑了。
linux系统下大家都习惯GPL对borland不卖帐。
在开发工具上面borland确实难做。
按目前的情况看borland卖了开发工具也许是一个明智的举动。

看不懂洋文，不过，请节哀！

http://www.borland.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2006/02_08_06_borland_acquires_segue_software.html
Borland to Acquire Software Quality Company, Segue Software;
Announces Plan to Divest IDE Product Lines
Company sets course for accelerating execution of its Software Delivery Optimization vision
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Feb 08, 2006 : Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ NM: BORL), today announced aggressive plans to drive its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) business forward. As part of that plan, Borland has agreed to buy Segue Software Inc. (NASDAQ CM: SEGU), the Massachusetts-based provider of global software quality and testing solutions. In addition, Borland announced plans to seek a buyer for the portion of its business associated with the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), including the award-winning Borland Developer Studio (Delphi®, C++Builder®
and C#Builder&reg and JBuilder®
product lines.
Both actions are significant milestones in Borland’s strategy to secure leadership in the growing ALM sector and expand its ability to offer organizations solutions that make software delivery a more predictable and manageable business process.
“Segue’s quality optimization products and services will add significantly to our growing portfolio of application lifecycle management solutions,” said Tod Nielse
n, Borland president and chief executive officer. “This is a natural extension of our focus to expand beyond development and into software delivery, helping companies increase business value through successful software initiatives.”
Nielse
n continued: “The decision to expand our emphasis on ALM, and at the same time enable our IDE business to get the attention it deserves, enables us to do
what’s right for our business, what’s right for our customers, and what’s right for the future of software development.”
Borland and Segue have entered into a definitive merger agreement in which Borland would acquire Segue in a one-step merger transaction for $8.67 per share in cash, and anticipates the transaction to close in the second calendar quarter. Concurrently with the execution of the merger agreement, Borland entered into voting agreements with certain significant Segue shareholders who own an aggregate of 21.5% of Segue’s outstanding shares and who have agreed to support the transaction. The transaction is valued at approximately $100 million and will be funded with existing cash on hand.
Borland’s Solution-Oriented Approach to Improving Software Delivery Processes
Borland’s ALM solutions play a critical role in helping enterprises manage the complexity of software development and delivery, by providing business, development and operational teams with increased visibility and control over all phases of the software lifecycle. This is especially crucial for large enterprises working within heterogeneous and distributed environments. IDC forecasts the ALM market to grow to $3.3 billion in 2009, achieving a 9.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for 2004–20091.
Over the past three years, Borland has built out its ALM portfolio to include products and services for project and portfolio management, demand management, requirements management, software configuration and change management and modeling, among other areas. In 2006, Borland intends to leverage these assets, its industry-leading process optimization and educational service offerings, and the expertise and technology it plans to acquire from Segue, to offer a series of packaged and personalized solutions that enable customers to improve the most critical process areas within software delivery. These areas of focus include:
IT Management and Governance
Requirements Definition and Management
Change Management
Lifecycle Quality Management
By increasing the maturity of these processes, companies can better manage complexity, while also mitigating the risk of external pressures such as compliance mandates, shifting business priorities and industry consolidation. Borland intends to roll out comprehensive solution offerings for each of the above mentioned processes throughout 2006. Each solution offering will be an integrated package of Borland’s ALM technology, process optimization services and skills training, all tailored to the customers’ unique needs and goals. This holistic and customized approach allows enterprises to more easily align people, process and technology so they can deliver quality software with maximum business value.
Borland and Segue Team on Lifecycle Quality Management
Segue Software, headquartered in Lexington, Mass., is an expert in delivering solutions to define, measure, manage and improve software quality throughout the entire application lifecycle. Upon completion of this acquisition, Segue will bring to Borland its comprehensive line of quality optimization and performance management products, a global team with deep understanding of the quality and testing space, and a significant customer base representing a wide range of industries and Fortune 100 companies.
Segue’s software quality optimization solutions and industry expertise will further extend Borland’s leadership in the ALM space, complementing Borland’s existing product set and worldwide service offerings. Segue’s state-of-the-art Silk product line will also play a central role in Borland’s upcoming Lifecycle Quality Management Solution, which looks to infuse quality throughout the lifecycle, addressing the root cause of quality problems versus reacting to symptoms later in the process when they are more costly. Segue’s technology will also be a key element of future versions of Borland’s integrated ALM platform.
“Rarely do
two companies share such a strong vision for transforming their industry,” said Joseph Krivickas, president and chief executive officer of Segue Software. “Borland and Segue have been partners for several years, helping our customers overcome the challenges that cause project failure and poor software quality. By bringing together our products and teams, we can help customers ensure higher standards of quality and service, while systematically reducing the costs associated with software quality issues.”
Borland Initiates Process to Divest IDE Product Lines
While organizations look to ALM solutions to improve team and organizational productivity, individual developers continue to demand more feature-rich tools that will help improve their own productivity. With this in mind, and the knowledge that developers play a pivotal role in the application lifecycle, Borland has continued to invest in its industry-leading development tools business in parallel with its ALM investments.
“Developers will always play an important role in the application lifecycle, but the ALM and IDE markets are very different - requiring distinct business models, different operational and marketing structures and a focused R&D team,” said Nielse
n. “Both markets are important, but Borland can no longer give both the resources and attention they require. Therefore, Borland has chosen to focus wholly on its ALM business, while acting in the best interests of the development community. Our intention is to create a standalone business focused on advancing individual developer productivity.”
Borland has retained Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. to manage the process of seeking a buyer for Borland’s IDE assets. To learn more about this announcement, please visit www.borland.com.
Borland will hold a conference call and simultaneous Webcast today to discuss recent announcements. This will take place on February 8, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. PST. To participate, please dial (866) 249-5225. To access the live Webcast, please visit the Investor Relations section of www.borland.com. A replay will be available approximately two hours after the conference call ends and will be available until February 23, 2006 at 12:00 a.m. PST. Please dial (800) 405-2236 or (303) 590-3000, with passcode 11050769 to access the replay. The archived Webcast will also be available on Borland’s website.
About Borland
Founded in 1983, Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL) is the global leader in Software Delivery Optimization. The company provides the software and services that align the people, processes and technology required to maximize the business value of software. To learn more about delivering quality software, on time and within budget, visit: www.borland.com.
Borland, Delphi, C++Builder, C#Builder, JBuilder and all other Borland brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
Safe Harbor Statement
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the Federal Securities Laws, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is subject to the safe harbors created by such laws. All statements that are not historical are forward-looking. Such forward-looking statements include statements regarding Borland’s strategic focus, near-term and long-term outlook, anticipated financial performance in the coming quarter, benefits and synergies of the proposed acquisition of Segue Software, Inc., the growth of the ALM market and Borland’s ALM solutions, future product offerings by the combined company and Borland’s plan to seek a buyer of its business dedicated to the Integrated Developer Environment (IDE) (including the Delphi, C++ Builder, C#Builder and JBuilder product lines). Actual results could differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements and are based on current expectations that involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the receipt and timing of regulatory approvals for the proposed acquisition;
the possibility that the acquisition will not close;
the reaction of customers to the acquisition;
the reaction by competitors to the proposed acquisition and the potential for increased pricing pressure by such competitors;
Borland's ability to successfully integrate Segue’s operations and employees;
costs associated with the acquisition and Borland’s ability to manage its expenses following the closing;
the Company’s reduced cash position following the acquisition;
the results of our exploration of the sale of Borland’s IDE product lines;
diversion of management attention from other business concerns due to the proposed transactions;
undisclosed or unanticipated liabilities and risks resulting from the proposed transactions;
our ability to sell multi-product solutions for the application development lifecycle;
the effects of a longer sales cycle as we increase our focus on larger enterprise customers;
market acceptance and adoption of our products and services including our enterprise software development solutions;
our ability to enhance the quality and scalability of our products to meet the needs of our customers;
our ability to retain key personnel and hire new leaders to support our business transition;
and general industry trends, general economic factors and capital market conditions. These and other risks may be detailed from time to time in Borland’s periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to its latest Annual Report on Form 10-K, and its latest quarterly report on Form 10-Q, copies of which may be obtained from http://www.sec.gov. Borland is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Information contained in our website is not incorporated by reference in, or made part of this press release.

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borland放弃了开发工具也不会好到那去！还不如留着呢！

靠　俺们咋整呢？

to rainmans
让
borland把咱们 一起给卖了把

看不懂

人家是要把这块业务分离出来，没说要卖吧！

http://dotnet.csdn.net/n/20060209/86496.html
今天，2006年2月8日，星期三，太平洋时间凌晨1点，Borland宣布为我们的IDE产品线寻求买主。这一产品线包括Delphi, C++Builder, C#Builder, JBuilder(含Peloton), InterBase, JDataStore, nDataStore, Kylix, 以及早期的Borland及Turbo语言产品和工具。我们的目标是利用公司内部为这些产品的光辉业绩做出了贡献的人们建立独立的业务体系，集中精力提高个人开发者的开发效率。
将IDE业务与ALM业务分离，并不是随便的决定。回顾过去的两年中，我们公司整体的运转中，我们为ALM和开发产品精打细算每一个美元。我们突然决定投入ALM业务，是因为我们在ALM的增长中所处的地位和市场机遇。但我们都知道，我们宝贵的顾客群体需要更多。由于公司致力于企业上市的运作模型，有难以估量的潜力仍然没有被挖掘出来，同时，重视更有帮助，生命周期更长的销售业务，使我们不得不对ALM产品，市场，乃至整个企业的运作模型投入更多。这一模型与我们常用的针对频道，直接面对开发者的市场运作及发布模型（通过压缩包和电子商店下载）有相当大的区别。
集中是业务成功的关键因素。通过这次公告，新建的两家公司都通过集中于他们需要做的事，帮助客户取得成功。我认为最棒的一点是，Borland让我们成为新的集中精力对开发者和软件开发充满热情的公司团队一员。我们希望继续为您，以及我们的开发者社区的利益开发出最好的解决方案和技术。我们是一群为开发者用户制作开发产品的开发者。这是软件业中存在的特殊关系。我们所做的是我们自己需要使用，并且让开发者社区喜欢的产品。
1983年11月，菲利浦·卡恩在拉斯维加斯的康迭给了我一份Turbo Pascal v1.0，于是我开始用它。我把它安装在自己的IBM PC上，立刻发现它与以往软件的不同。从那天开始，我开始意识到，愿意为Borland工作。1985年6月17日，我进了Borland。二十几年来，我都为自己是一家伟大的公司，一个伟大的开发者社区的一员而感到由衷喜悦。在Turbo时代，我享受过那种在R&D中管理编译小组的乐趣。过去15年中，开发者关系负责人的身份，让我（和我们的团队）可以周游世界，与上万名程序员见面。我每天都工作，并与全世界最优秀的专心与开发者的软件工程师合作。

对于前往新公司工作的事，我感到很兴奋。我们有优秀的团队成员，我们有合手的工具和组件协作系统，我们有编写人员，训练人员，咨询人员，以及最重要的——珍贵的社区。我们的新公司会完全致力于您与您的成功。是的，两家公司会有各自的软件开发着重点，都将推动发展状况和最好的实践活动。只是方式不同而已。我们的公司会集中于提高开发者效率，用我们著名的IDE，工具，组件库，类库和数据库技术来开发强大的应用开发产品。Borland则会着重于大型企业的需求，帮助他们优化软件开发过程。
今天，eWeek杂志的达利尔·塔夫特问我：“作为Borland任职时间最久的员工，这次被调职对你有多大影响？”我回答他，我会带着脸上巨大的微笑和眼里小小的一滴泪前往新的公司。
我想向所有今天在斯考特谷的人们，以及全世界为未来版本的Delphi, JBuilder等产品工作的人们保证。我们仍然会倾听您的需求，问题和建议。我们会继续追踪新平台，随时加入您想使用的Windows，.NET, Java, 开放标准和新兴技术所需要的创造。
对我们的IDE业务而言，这样做是正确的。对Borland的ALM业务集中发展也是正确的。我们最先要保证的是用户群平稳并成功地过渡，以及为将来更多的投资，关注和增长创造条件。这并不意味着关闭一条产品线，而是为它注入活力。这次行动最大程度保证了我们的顾客，公司和社区的利益。
我们还没有确认所有购买了IDE产品的用户，但我，以及开发团队的其他成员，正在与Borland执行团队一起，对将来会有助与IDE业务发展的客户进行确认。Borland永远把用户摆在第一位，也是最重要的一位，时刻努力满足他们不断变化的需求。我们会在发展路途上，随时向您通报。
前进吧，Borland。前进吧，新的公司。前进吧，开发者们！！
戴维·英特西蒙, "David I"
副总裁，开发者关系部，首席开发工程师
Borland软件公司

英文原文： http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33439,00.html

拥有的是程序思想，开发工具、语言无关紧要
哪怕微软卖了WINDOWS又怎么样

顶上去

delphi2006可是刚刚出的呀

指望卖个好价钱嘛。
当然要出点新东西。

强烈建议中国公司把它买下来！！