Borland Being Purchased By Micro Focus 351
An anonymous reader tips news that Micro Focus is in the process of buying Borland Software for $75 million. They also picked up Compuware's application testing and automated software quality business. Quoting ZDNet:
"The boards of both companies agreed to the deal, which is expected to complete around mid-2009. ... In 2008, Texas-based Borland made a pre-tax loss of $204m, almost four times the size of the previous year's loss. It had revenues of $172m, part of a consistent downward trend since at least 2004. ... Borland was one of the oldest software companies in the PC software business, having been founded in 1981. Its most successful era was in the late 1980s via massive sales of Sidekick, a DOS-based terminate-and-stay-resident personal productivity application, and development tool Turbo Pascal, which challenged Microsoft's dominance in the application-development market."
How many more (Score:1, Funny)
Who is Micro Focus? (Score:5, Funny)
"Micro Focus Net Express® is the market-leading COBOL development environment"
So, a company that should've died off in the nineties is being bought by a company that noone has ever heard of that should've died off in the eighties. Weird.
ah borland (Score:4, Funny)
Er.. not that i wrote malware. >_>
turbo-Pascal (Score:5, Funny)
Man - between all that bullshit and bands like "A Flock of Haircuts" it was enough to make Max Headroom hurhurhur-HURL!
RS
Re:C++ Builder is the best C++ IDE for RAD, by far (Score:3, Funny)
You can design forms and controls in the same way as Visual Basic, but it is C++.
I thought that was called Visual C++.
Odd (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure what surprised me more when I read this: that Borland still exists, or that Micro Focus still exists.
Re:turbo-Pascal (Score:5, Funny)
I'm glad the "turbo" trend died. Long live "X-treme"!
Re:Who is Micro Focus? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, it's rather like a newsflash that the Hanseatic league has declared war on the Duchy of Burgundy. What? Where? And who cares?
To get back to the subject, in my first "proper" (post college) job the first month was training on Microfukers Cowbull. I will never forgive anyone involved, including myself.
Re:You are Micro Focus (Score:5, Funny)
Do you have Tourette's syndrome, or is there some other reason why your post is liberally sprinkled with shouted obscenities?
Re:Who is Micro Focus? (Score:3, Funny)
COBOL programmers who were maintaining applications on a mainframe were no longer tied to an 8-color terminal connected at 9600 baud, or by using a terminal-emulation program that was just as bad.
Indeed. In much the same vein, I hope that gcc will some day include support for AppleBASIC.
Re:Who is Micro Focus? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You are Micro Focus (Score:5, Funny)
Go FORTRAN yourself, you FrameMaker.
Re:Who is Micro Focus? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, it's rather like a newsflash that the Hanseatic league has declared war on the Duchy of Burgundy. What? Where? And who cares?
You mean it's too late to catch the 11:30 auto-gyro to the Prussian embassy in Siam?
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Re:Who is Micro Focus? (Score:4, Funny)
Having a million-color monitor makes COBOL soooo much friendlier than 8. It's just the touch COBOL needed. I like my GO TO statements to be Sunrise Chartreuse. Any other color and they'd be mistaken for PIC statements.
Re:You are Micro Focus (Score:4, Funny)
Troll? What idiot did I offend this time? And how? Is somebody a Grace Hopper fanboy? If so, you really need to get a life!
Re:TSR (Score:3, Funny)
Aaah good old terminate-and-stay-resident programs,
Terminate and stay resident? You mean, when a cyborg that looks like Arnold Scharzenegger kills someone and then moves into their house?