Re: Borland Interim CEO Outlines Strategy

Brian Moelk wrote:
From an ALM perspective, I think there is more you can do with StarTeam than you can an IDE.

I guess if you ignore the "Develop" phase of ALM, that is true. But try as you might, you can't develop many applications with StarTeam.

IDE's are mature, and developers tend to be really attached to their IDE of choice.

Ditto for VCS systems, especially if the organization has a history with the system and has built tools around it.

SCM with StarTeam will make much more of an impact in the ALM space.

The potential to make more money is greater in the ALM space because ALM tools outside the IDE can be carried to competing IDEs. Not sure if that means it has more ALM meat. It's just meat that can be served up in more places. Mooo... :-)

Not sure if you saw the numbers I posted on ALM market size. Currently almost half a BILLION dollars. $1 Billion dollars by 2011. If Borland can tap into 10% of it, they would be doing well. Even 1% in 2011 isn't terrible.

There is a lot more unchartered territory to provide interesting and meaningful features in the process of software development than in the actual act of writing and debugging code.

Don't forget profiling code during development and in production. "Unchartered territory" is again a potential. Potentiality <> substance. Delphi starts as 20 pounds of beef. StarTeam

I don't think anyone here is telling people to move to VS.NET;

I have seen it a few times. "Delphi lover" telling people to move to VS. It is limited to a very small amount of people.

Killing something from the inside, is much easier than killing from outside.

The motives of the Borland executives to make money, for the company and themselves. There is no evidence they are working in a viral mode.

If "the movement" were not vocal about their concerns regarding what has been said recently, I'm not sure Borland would be as motivated as they are to issue a statement.

The people who complain about Borland are a subset of the people who expressed concern about recent statements. You give this "movement" too much credit.

Besides, just because people are not expressing their concerns, doesn't mean that they do not have those concerns.

I have expressed concerns about Borland and Delphi, but for some reason, the contrast between them and me seem great. I don't think I'm in the same boat.

I don't think my skepticism is unfounded. You may disagree, but I think there has been enough said recently to warrant an official statement from Borland beyond what John or Anders can do here.

If the skepticism was limited to the last two or three days, that statement would be credible. It has been a nonstop marathon as some have stated about the general mood of the group. It many cases, it goes beyond skepticism into acidic pessimism.

I agree. But if you're talking about "nice little cash cow", let's also be realistic about the motives of the author of the article in question. I seriously doubt he would write something that deliberately mischaracterizes what Mr. Arnold had said.

Why not? The author of the article you posted called anyone using Delphi a cultist. I've never been called a cultist before, and I don't think I am part of a cult.

There's a case where the author basically insulted all Delphi users, and I didn't read a peep about it in the newsgroup. I guess every Delphi user is ok with being personally insulted, but many did latch onto "cash cow", which was an interpretation and not a quote. "Cult following" is also an interpretation and just as wrong.

http://www.nysia.org/special_features/article.cfm?pid=178

To imply that the author has some kind of malicious motive is quite a stretch. His credibility is on the line as well

:-)) Reporters have been known to make bold, ignorant statements to impress colleagues. They believe such statements /improve/ their credibility. Ask Jesse Berst.

Also, Mr. Arnold was quoted as saying "Java tools are dead, long live the Java developer"; I wonder what the JBuilder folks think about that. I wonder how the JBuilder R&D team feels about that.

I think that statement piggy backs on what he said before. (Remember, context as you say.) It was mentioned that the Java community chose their tool, and it was Eclipse. Borland will accommodate to the will of the Java developer. In the Java community, Borland will focus on supporting technologies in the world of Java vs. putting so much emphasis on tools. One of the technologies is to plug into Eclipse.

Cheers,
Kyle A. Miller
Happy Delphi Cultist
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