Re: Wild speculations about the "other" factors

Brian Moelk wrote:

IanH wrote:
PMFJI,

No need to pardon anything...everyone should jump in non-tech! ;)

Borland gave the impression of being as easy to steer as a
supertanker. I hope Devco has a significantly smaller
turning-circle.

If they aren't more agile, IMO they will die.

Agreed. I worry that they will still be wrapped up in big-comapny
mentality: lawyers approval required for any communication, corporate
paranoia, dismissive attitude to customers - even inability to perform
simple web-site maintenance etc.

<wild speculation>
How about using the new IDE as a platform that can host many
different types of development, with an open architecture that
can support the Mozilla platform, Rails, LAMP etc. How much effort
would be involved in using the core IDE product with the
platform-specific stuff bolted on, Eclipse-style but wholly
owned/controlled by DevCo?

What advantage would that have over Eclipse itself?

Control - lean, mean, focused development. Though Borland does give the
impression that it needs big, slow departments to achieve in a year the
same sort of progress that an agile company could achieve in a month.

Performance - stick to a Windows only IDE, allow targetting of other
platforms where that makes commercial sense, eg linux.

IMO, I would like
to see CBuilderX follow JBuilders lead and leverage Eclipse.

I don't know enough about the market to decide if there is a commercial
case for the product. Apparently, neither did Borland ;-)

My future C++ needs will be met by a Blackfin development system: no
scope at all for a CBuilderX-type product.


If resourcing is a problem, maybe they could license the IDE core to
small companies / startups with platform expertise, and take a
royalty.

Though they've probably got enough on their plates at the moment ;-)
</wild speculation>

Yeah, I'm not sure how this would make DevCo any money. Unless
controlling your own IDE core gives you some kind of advantage, it's
best to use VS.NET or Eclipse.

Assuming that the IDE will be retained/developed for the existing BDS
products, then it should come as a wholly-owned freebie, that gets
whatever enhancements the main product gets in it's drive to be the
best IDE on Windows.
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