Another of the old guard has collapsed. Borland has finally given up the
ghost.
After a 26-year run that saw it adopt multiple personalities in going from
influential to non-entity, the tools house that once challenged Microsoft and
Lotus is being acquired by Micro Focus for $75 million cash, a buck a share.
The British company wants it for its application lifecycle management
software, Borland's latest avatar.
Micro Focus figures that with the roughly $8 million Borland had in the bank
at the end of December, the acquisition will only cost it about $67 million.
The price it's paying is nominally a 25% premium against Borland's closing
price Tuesday but a 67% premium over its average closing price the prior 30
days.
The UK company is also buying Compuware's application testing and automated
software quality assets for $80 million.
Micro Focus has been growing by acquisi... (more)
I've been in the XML world for about two years now - a dinosaur at today's
rate. Still, I have problems with understanding conceptual and syntax issues
of WSDL and XML Schema - especially the latter. In addition to being complex,
XML Schema and WSDL are relatively new (or soon to be new) WC3
recommendations. So now I have two WC3 recommendations that are intimidating
and complex in nature. If they're difficult for me, what about XML beginners
on my team? How will they understand them? Enough said...
What this industry really needs is an inexpensive tool that will allow the
creat... (more)
At this week's Microsoft Conference, eBay and Borland Software Corporation
announced a new relationship that will provide Borland developers with access
to tools and resources for creating Web services applications for the eBay
and PayPal platforms and communities.
Through a joint distribution agreement, Borland will make the eBay and PayPal
Software Development Kits (SDKs) available to Delphi developers. The
agreement provides Delphi developers with access to tools and resources that
can help them build highly-available .NET services. These Web services
applications will allow d... (more)
SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media
company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls opened today,
February 1, 2005, and will remain open for six months, until July 31, 2005.
More than 50,000 readers are expected to cast their votes to select the
best software products and services of the year for Java, Linux, Web
Services, XML, Microsoft .NET, ColdFusion and Macromedia MX.
Best Java Products of 2005:
http://sys-con.com/java/readerschoice2004
Best Linux Pro... (more)
SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media
company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls will close on
December 31, 2005. So far more than 16,000 readers cast their votes to
select the best software products and services of the year for Java, Linux,
Web Services, XML, Microsoft .NET, ColdFusion and Macromedia MX.
Best Java Products of 2005:
http://java.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
Best Linux Products of 2005:
http://linux.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
Best Web Services Products of 2005:
http://webservices.sys-con.... (more)
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