CodeGear wins big Russian contract Feb 2, 2008
Asked if the deal represents a revival for Delphi, which had been a Borland Software product, Douglas acknowledged that this might be the perception ... CodeGear was spun out of Borland about a year ago to focus on development tools ... But CodeGear still is owned by Borland, which now concentrates on the application lifecycle management space. (InfoWorld)
App development just a weak link without metrics Jan 17, 2008
" Marc Brown, vice president of product marketing at Austin, Texas-based Borland, said the Forrester study underscores the reality that app dev is the "weakest link in the chain" and software delivery a "black box. " In December, Borland announced that it would introduce a number of new "open ALM" platform products in 2008 that will track the development process from idea to delivery. The products promise to help customers determine which metrics to choose and how to automate the collection of... (SearchCIO.com)
Bigadda.com, Just Launched And Much Loved Jan 14, 2008
This is the motto of CodeGear, the erstwhile Borland Developer Tools Group. As an independent company, the CodeGear team works towards advancing and supporting the product lines like JBuilder, Delphi, C++Builder, Turbo and InterBase. (SDA India Magazine)
Borland cutting 8% of staff Jan 8, 2008
Borland (NASDAQ: BORL) officials say the 90 workers in the U.S. and European offices will be laid off by July ... Borland, which makes open application software, moved its headquarters to Austin earlier this year ... Borland's stock was down about 6 percent Monday afternoon, hovering at about $2. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
Borland Software Corp. Jan 8, 2008
Borland cutting 8% of staff - Austin Business Journal ... Borland cutting 8% of staff ... Borland (NASDAQ: BORL) officials say the 90 workers in the U.S. and European offices will be laid off by July. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
Hype or Help? An ALM Reality Check Dec 13, 2007
According to a survey of more than 300 ALM customers published by Borland Software in August 2007, nearly 90 percent of organizations rely on multiple ALM from several different vendors. Sixty-nine percent support two or more development platforms, with nearly half deploying to both Java and. (CIO Information Network)
Internet Surfing, Online Shopping at Work Increase Worldwide as Holidays Grow Closer Dec 12, 2007
BSA member companies in Canada include Adobe Systems, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Bentley Systems, Borland, CNC Software/Mastercam, Microsoft, Mindjet, McAfee, Monotype Imaging, PTC, SolidWorks, Sybase, Symantec, The MathWorks, and UGS. Company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. For further information: or to receive a copy of BSA's tips for wired workers to remain safe online, please contact: Melita Vega, Hill ton, (416) 413-4743, melita. (Canada Newswire)
Borland to mix ALM, BI Dec 11, 2007
Borland to mix ALM, business intelligence ... Borland Software in the mid-2008 timeframe plans to blend business intelligence with application lifecycle management, releasing products that will collect data stored in disparate toolsets for use in reporting metrics in application development projects ... "It's actually bringing business intelligence or reporting and visibility to the application lifecycle," said Marc Brown, Borland's vice president of product marketing. (InfoWorld)
SOA virtualization gets real Nov 30, 2007
Notable partnerships including the testing unit of Borland Inc. which is partnering with VMware Inc. to add virtualization to its products. Hewlett-Packard Corp., with the Mercury technology it acquired, has partnered with Surgient Inc, which provides virtual lab environments for application development. (Search Webservices)
Software production management could boost productivity Nov 28, 2007
Voke also is recommending use of software production management tools, such as IBM Rational Build Forge, Electric Cloud ElectricCommander, Borland Gauntlet, or open-source products like CruiseControl. "Once [organizations] started using the software production management tools, what they found was that their broken builds disappeared," she said. (InfoWorld)
Sun's xVM Supports Windows, Linux Nov 16, 2007
Sun's New Virtualization Manager Supports Windows, Linux. Sun's New Virtualization Manager Supports Windows, Linux. (eWeek)
Ellison Provides Fusion Overview Nov 16, 2007
Oracle's Ellison Provides Fusion Apps Overview. Oracle's Ellison Provides Fusion Apps Overview. (eWeek)
MEMS breed a new batch of consumer-pleasing devices Nov 14, 2007
Kahn invented the camera phone, founded Borland Software Corp., Starfish Software (acquired by Motorola in 1998) and Lightsurf (acquired by VeriSign in 2005). Kahn's latest startup company, Fullpower Technologies, provides a preemptive priority operating environment for consumer-device designers trying to utilize MEMS accelerometers, proximity sensors, ambient light detectors, pressure sensors, magnetometers (compass) and (GPS) chips, as well as MEMS pressure and flow-rate sensors for measuring... (EETimes)
2007 InfoWorld 100 Awards Nov 12, 2007
Built using Borland StarTeam as a foundation, StarPoint was integrated with Microsoft SharePoint to manage technical change requests and ensure compliance with regulatory mandates. The system also acts as a code repository for more than 450 IT projects in support of the firm's 1. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Exec Shares Vision for Programming Nov 10, 2007
is a division of Austin, Texas-based Borland Software. However, to get to the programming nirvana of 2027, developers will first have to overcome some of the obstacles present in today's development processes, Intersimone said. (eWeek)
Eclipse Helps Make, Save Money Nov 9, 2007
David Intersimone, vice president of developer relations at CodeGear, a division of Borland Software, said Eclipse is also "by vendors for vendors," noting that Borland and CodeGear both participate in committing code to Eclipse and also in using the Eclipse platform to build tools on top of. "We built JBuilder 2007 on top of Eclipse," he said. (eWeek)
Office Formats Fail to Communicate Nov 5, 2007
By Tiffany Maleshefski August 10, 2007. Analysis: Critics say vendors such as Sun are not doing enough regarding interoperability to make the standard a viable competitor to Microsoft. (eWeek)
Fortress Mac Is Gone Nov 3, 2007
Updated: Malware breaches the Mac moat. Several pornography sites are loading a Trojan disguised as a video codec required to view content on Macs the first Mac-targeted malware exploit to be spotted in the wild and validation of security researchers' long-maintained prediction that, sooner or later, the rationale for Mac security smugness would rub off. (eWeek)
Is Distributed Development Empowering or Undermining Your Business Agility? Oct 31, 2007
Product Marketing Manager for Change Management Solutions - Borland Software Corporation ... Borland Director of Product Marketing Corn; Human will provide the solution vendor's perspective on building a distributed development infrastructure, and explain how you can drive collaboration, manage change and expose metrics that help you continuously improve ... Make sure to register for this educational event today sponsored by Borland with featured speaker from Forrester. (eWeek)
Lunar Lander Challenge: interview with William Pomerantz Oct 27, 2007
The big event at is the , in which try and fly their homemade rockets from one concrete pad to another, 100 meters away. NASA put up the $2 million in prize money, hoping they'll get a sense of how a new generation of mooncraft might look. (Wired News)
MSFT Plans Broad Mobile Platform Oct 24, 2007
Ballmer: Microsoft Aims to Build Universal Mobile Platform. Ballmer: Microsoft Aims to Build Universal Mobile Platform. (eWeek)
Microsoft Rebuts UC Criticism Oct 24, 2007
Microsoft Rebuts Siemens' Criticism of its UC Strategy. Microsoft Rebuts Siemens' Criticism of its UC Strategy. (eWeek)
Riverbed, Juniper Square Off Oct 23, 2007
The rivals companies update their WAN optimization controllers. Rivals Riverbed Technology and Juniper Networks are offering dueling software upgrades to their competing WAN optimization controllers. (eWeek)
Citrix Rounds Out Virtualization Oct 22, 2007
The Citrix Presentation Server line gains new virtualization technology, security and power management features. Citrix Systems at its iForum conference on Oct. 22 will demonstrate to customers just how broad its definition of application delivery really is when it launches new virtualization technology along with new communications, security and power management features embedded in its flagship Presentation Server line. (eWeek)
Bay Area business blog Oct 15, 2007
He previously was VP of corporate business development at Borland Software. Electric Cloud makes business software and is in Mountain View. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Aligning Quality & Virtualization to Succeed with Complex Solution Delivery Oct 13, 2007
Director of Product Marketing for Lifecycle Quality Management - Borland Software Corporation ... In this joint Borland/VMware webcast, Theresa Lanowitz from voke will talk about what it takes to test and deliver applications that hit their mark using virtualization. (eWeek)
Adam Bosworth on the Move Again Oct 9, 2007
Bosworth has worked for Analytica, Borland, Microsoft, Crossgain, BEA Systems and Google over the years, moving effortlessly between companies and leaving a series of successful products and technologies in his wake. For instance, his team at Microsoft is often credited with creating the basis of , which is all the rage with developers nowadays. (eWeek)
Adobe releases media player beta, boosts business tools Oct 2, 2007
Download this white paper, compliments of Borland. (Source: Borland) Software Development lives and dies by its ability to cope with change, yet teams are often thrown off-track by unexpected change. (Computerworld)
Microsoft Passes AJAX Interoperability Test Sep 27, 2007
The alliance was initially by IBM, along with Google, Yahoo, BEA, Borland, the Eclipse Foundation, Mozilla Corporation, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, and others. Now its membership is up to 90 companies, organizations, and interested parties, and includes other heavy hitters such as Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments and American Greetings. (CIO Information Network)
CodeGear offers IDE for Ruby on Rails Sep 18, 2007
The product gives Rails developers, who have been mostly relying on text editors, their own IDE, Borland said. Developers have for its speed and ease of use in building rich Web 2. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Open source hippies and opinionated bloggers Sep 18, 2007
I m a person who firmly believes that the Wintel duopoly will continue to rule the world for many years to come, and that firms like Google and VMware will eventually go the way of Borland, Novell, Netscape, and a host of other niche also-rans that were eventually absorbed into the amoeba-like entity that is Windows. Well, at least we know where Randy stands. (InfoWorld)
Google Healths Adam Bosworth Leaves the Company Sep 13, 2007
Before Microsoft, Bosworth worked for Borland where he developed the Quattro spreadsheet application post Borland s acquisition of Analytica in 1985 - founded by Bosworth and Eric Michelman, and managed by Brad Silverberg. Bosworths educational qualifications include a BA degree in History from Harvard University in 1976. (TechShout!)
Borland's Nagging Glitches Aug 14, 2007
From March until June, Borland Software's (Nasdaq: BORL) stock price swung from $5 to $6 ... But with private equity crumbling, so have Borland shares ... 92 on Borland's fiscal Q2 results. (MSNBC -- Business)
CodeGear Pushes Java to Real World Aug 14, 2007
In addition, Intersimone discussed some of the differences in the ways Borland and CodeGear approach the market. "The way we look at it is there's an enterprise life cycle that covers everything; that's what Borland does," Intersimone said ... "We're really focused on the life cycle within the developer project process. We don't offer portfolio management and other things that Borland does. But even within the developer space, there's a life cycle with debugging, check-in/check-out, planning,... (eWeek)
Borland Software reports drop in revenue Aug 12, 2007
Borland, which offers software, consulting and education services to help its customers manage software development, is relocating its corporate headquarters to Austin. Entrepreneur Case Studies. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
Stocks Stabilize After Central Banks Step In Aug 12, 2007
Nvidia (), Borland Software (), Brooks Automation ()CyptoLogic (), Marchex (), Symmetricom () and Sapient () fell on their earnings reports, while Rambus () fell 5% after delaying its annual report because of stock option issues. The Nasdaq fell 11 to 2545, the Sgained a fraction to 1453, and the Dow lost 31 to 13,239. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Stocks to Watch Aug 10, 2007
Borland Software Corp. () said its second-quarter loss narrowed to $11. 2 million, or 16 cents a share, from $19 million, or 25 cents a share, a year earlier. (Fox News)
Oracle Eyes the ALM Market Aug 8, 2007
Oracle is planning to enter the application lifecycle management space, taking on the likes of IBM Rational, Microsoft, Borland Software and Serena Software in delivering tools that empower enterprise developers to more effectively build complex solutions. ADVERTISEMENT. (eWeek)
Google, Microsoft File FTC Complaint Against NFL, MLB, NBCU Aug 5, 2007
Once upon a time Borland had a common sense license agreement that allowed unrestricted copies but asked that you treat the software like a book-you can only use one copy at a time. Perfect. (BetaNews)
8/1: Deletemp3.worm Deletes MP3 Files Aug 2, 2007
worm is written using Borland Delphi and its payload is to delete any mp3 files found on the infected computer. More information can be found at McAfee page. (eSecurityPlanet)
Salesforce unmasks Apex Code Jul 18, 2007
Mike Epner, vice president of worldwide services and support at Borland Software, said that his firm will create several new applications to run on the Salesforce ... In addition, Borland plans to use the new version's portal to deliver technical support content to Borland customers. (InfoWorld)
Salesforce.com Heats up Enterprise CRM with Salesforce Summer '07, Based on World's First Platform-as-a-Service Jul 17, 2007
"We are very excited to get our hands on Apex Code and develop entirely new on-demand applications so that our entire company can go on-demand. We are confident that the new applications we build with Apex Code will further enhance the success we've achieved with salesforce.com to date," said Mike Epner, Vice President, Worldwide Services and Support, Borland. Summer '07 comes at a time when customers and partners are integrating salesforce. (PR Newswire)
Salesforce.com Issues Apex Code Jul 17, 2007
"By making the Apex platform and programming language available, salesforce.com is enabling the ecosystem to lead the way for the next level of innovation in on demand. The question is now that Salesforce has built the Apex code will developers come to build outside the Salesforce environment, that is? Mike Epner, vice president of Worldwide Services at Borland, the development tools company, is using Apex to build a new customer facing portal that automatically communicates customer contract... (eWeek)
Introduction To GNU C++ Jul 15, 2007
Third party commercial libraries are available as well, such as the Borland C++ Builder VCL. These libraries supply multi-platform presence while allowing a single C++ coding portal ... The GNU C++ compiler and linker is not designed to be a competitor with Microsoft or Borland products (these software giants also have C++ products) ... The Qt, wxWidget, and Borland VCL libraries provide this ability in varying degrees. (Suite101.com)
Borland CEO's GPS Rangefinder Jul 13, 2007
My favorite gadget: SkyCaddie SG2 GPS Rangefinder Price: $259. Why I love it: SkyCaddie marries two things I'm really passionate about--golf and GPS technology. (Forbes -- Technology)
VMware Opens Lab Manager For iSCSI Jul 11, 2007
Integration with Borland SilkCentral and HP Quality Center test automation suites lets users test and then deploy virtualization scenarios to Lab Manager in an automated fashion. The 2. (Datamation)
Borland, VMware team on testing Jul 10, 2007
With virtualization growing in popularity, Borland Software and VMWare are partnering to accommodate the unique application testing needs presented by this paradigm ... Borland is announcing its SilkCentral Test Manager 2007 software testing package while VMware is offering VMware Lab Manager 2 ... With the integration of the two products, applications can be tested across multiple configurations, Borland said. (InfoWorld)
Intel Capital buys $218M of VMware Jul 10, 2007
In a separate announcement, Borland Software said it would integrate Lab Manager 2 ... Together, those applications will allow software developers to test their applications across multiple configurations using virtual platforms, instead of having to own many separate, physical test labs, Borland said. (InfoWorld)
Borland Tops SCM Survey Jun 22, 2007
Borland Software beat out its competition to be named the top source control management software provider in a recent survey. According to the June 19 survey, conducted by Evans Data, Borland won out over competitors such as Microsoft, IBM Rational, Serena Software and open-source vendors ... Developers responding to the Evans survey chose Borland's StarTeam as the top SCM (source control management) product on the market, Evans officials said. (eWeek)
Read more at Linux.com Jun 20, 2007
He paid a little over $1,000, but bluntly told the importer that "the only future for Unix [is if it is] sold at a 'Borland' price ($99)." Sure enough, in late 1993, Empain bought his first Linux CD (Yggdrasil, kernel 0. 99x) for under $100. (NewsForge)
IBM Tools Up Another Deal Jun 19, 2007
The deal will also bolster IBM's competitive advantage against players like Borland (NYSE: BORL) and Serena. The valuation for Telelogic is about 3. (MSNBC -- Business)
Rational Continues Buying Spree Jun 16, 2007
The combination of Watchfire and Rational will enable users to identify and address security risks in their applications before the applications go live, something that cannot be offered by Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard or Borland Software, Sabbah said. With Telelogic, IBM acquires for $745 million a competitor and market leader in the requirements management space. (eWeek)
Cube Dweller Jun 14, 2007
Up until October of last year, Barbin was chief technology officer at Borland Software (nasdaq: - - ). He calls this "managing 25 years of bloat." Borland was up to one server per employee stretched across nine data centers. (Forbes -- Technology)
IBM Rational Returns to Its Roots Jun 13, 2007
Marc Brown, vice president of product marketing for Borland Software, in Austin, Texas, said an IBM acquisition of Telelogic would leave Borland as "the key vendor for platform/technology neutral solutions. The acquisition ensures that the Telelogic product line will be optimized to the IBM middleware and systems management solutions, thereby losing its more 'neutral' position in the ALM market.". Hank Weghorst, CEO of Troux Technologies, also of Austin, said that although Telelogic has competed... (eWeek)
Eclipse Europa, part 1: Modeling project supports SOA Jun 12, 2007
Richard Gronback Chief Scientist, Borland Software Corp. ... "You can use the EMP modeling technology in service-oriented architecture to bridge from a Web services front end to an OSGi service running inside," said Richard Gronback, chief scientist at Borland Software Corp. and lead for the Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) project that is part of Eclipse EMP. ... Richard Gronback Chief Scientist, Borland Software Corp.. (Search Webservices)
IBM buys security vendor Watchfire Jun 7, 2007
Cenzic, in Santa Clara, California, has worked with application development tool specialist Borland Software in the past, and its current partners include IBM and Mercury Interactive, now a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard. Watchfire developed its WebXM auditing tool in house, but obtained its flagship AppScan product through the in July 2004. (InfoWorld)
Maternity ward gives birth to camera phone May 20, 2007
"It's had a massive impact because it's just so convenient," said Philippe Kahn, a tech industry maverick whose other pioneering efforts include the founding of software-maker Borland, an early Microsoft Corp. antagonist. "There's always a way to capture memories and share it," he said. (North County Times)
A picture of technological innovation May 19, 2007
"If Kahn feels a bit like a proud father when he sees people holding up their cell phones to snap pictures, there's good reason: He jury-rigged the first camera phone while his wife was in labor with their daughter."We were going to have a baby and I wanted to share the pictures with family and friends," Kahn said, "and there was no easy way to do it. "So as he sat in a maternity ward, he wrote a crude program on his laptop and sent an assistant to a RadioShack store to get a soldering iron,... (The Morning Star)
Camera Phone Pioneer Ponders the Impact May 18, 2007
"It's had a massive impact because it's just so convenient," said Philippe Kahn, a tech industry maverick whose other pioneering efforts include the founding of software maker Borland, an early Microsoft Corp. antagonist. "There's always a way to capture memories and share it," he said. (ABC News -- Wire)
CodeGear Shifts onto Rails May 18, 2007
Opinion: CodeGear, Borland's developer tools arm, has welcomed a new CEO and is offering new tools for Ruby on Rails and C++ development ... Whoops, I mean CodeGear, the developer tools arm of Borland, is back ... Borland, the parent, packed up and moved to Austin. (eWeek)
JavaOne Is Here, but Where Is the Java EE 6 Spec? May 9, 2007
Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, SAS Institute, Google, SAP, Doug Lea and Hani Suleiman abstained from voting, and the Apache Software Foundation, BEA Systems, Borland Software and Fujitsu did not vote at all. At issue some are some of the "field of use" restrictions Sun has put on its Java EE TCK (test compatibility kit), an issue Magnusson said Sun was purposefully protecting Java for its own commercial gain. (eWeek)
Can JBI 2 Succeed? May 8, 2007
0 include Borland Software Corp., Red Hat, webMethods, Pramati Technologies, TIBCO Software, the Apache Software Foundation, Adobe and Iona's LogicBlaze division, among others. ADVERTISEMENT. (eWeek)
Customize Your IDE: Ideas for Extending Visual Studio 2005 May 7, 2007
Integration and Migration , by Borland Software: Enables. NET apps to access J2EE or CORBA server-side components. (LinuxPlanet)
File-Swapping Veers into the Fast Lane May 4, 2007
CURRENT ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS. ISTOCKPHOTO/ANDREW MANLEY. (Scientific American)
Red Hat chides Oracle over Linux Apr 25, 2007
Also at the conference, , the developer tools arm of Borland Software, said it has partnered with MySQL to integrate the MySQL database with the CodeGear Delphi IDE line, including Delphi for PHP, Delphi 2007 for Win32 products, and Delphi for. Net. (InfoWorld)
