Borland's For-Sale Tools Place Well in IDE CompetitionDespite being targeted for divestiture by their owner, Borland Software's development tools fared very well in a comparison of application development tools recently released by Evans Data.
Borland's JBuilder Java IDE (integrated development environment) came in either first or second in several categories in the study, particularly those dealing with performance. And JBuilder was ranked second overall to IBM Rational Developer in terms of combined overall rankings among the nine IDE developers rated.
Borland's JBuilder won top scores for the core IDE tools and for performance, prompting Janel Garvin, the Evans Data analyst who wrote the report, to say, "This presents a huge opportunity for some company to buy some of the best tools on the market. Perhaps Oracle should make this acquisition. Their Developer Suite IDE is not well-loved by its own users."
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Borland used to compete with Microsoft and they were fighting good battle, but those were glory days. Borland is shrinking, and there is a good chance that they won't be around in several years. Competition is tough ...
