Nigel Brown talks about IDEs future

April 27, 2006

Nigel Brown talks about IDEs future

Nigel Brown, "DevCo" general manager discusses some of the plans for Delphi and the JBuilder. Very interesting.

You can find the full interview on The Register. You can also find comments from Allen Bauer, Nick Hodges (hey, Nick, you forgot the title!), and people in the newsgroups (using my AJAX frontend).

What's my take? I find it very interesting and it sheds a new light on the way DevCo could sell Delphi. They want to take again the lead over Microsoft ("Our goal is to get back to that scenario where we are leading"), invest more moeny in the IDE tools, rehire "engineers and architects who were at the forefront of developing languages", mentions an "installed base of three million developers", wants to start "making money from support and added services".

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Nigel Brown talks about IDEs future

 Hi,

 I don't know how many other people feel like me, but 
as a developer in Delphi 1 through 5, I am totally 
confused about the future of Delphi since the 
announcement by Borland the other day about divesting 
itself of its programming language development tools.

Can we expect Delphi to live on?  This new version of 
Visual Studio 2005 is only beginning to emulate the 
successful IDE that Delphi has offered for years, but 
it may be my only choice if Delphi is going away.

Thanks,

William

Comment by William Hogg on April 29, 21:47

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