Re: Selling Price $32 million? was Re: Borland plans separate company for Delphi, JBuilder, C++Builder,InterBase,JDataStore and other developer products...

John Jacobson wrote:

IDE is 7% of the company's revenues, so that implies a market
valuation of only $32 million. I figure JBuilder is worth next to
nothing now that Eclipse has triumphed, so most of that $32 million
would be Delphi (or BDS). That's a small amount of money to pay to
get a development tool of that caliber.

That would make sense if you calculate the value of the IDEs based on
that quarter alone. AFAICT, future potential revenue should also be
factored into the equation, as well as what else is included in the
deal, eg staff and other assets.

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