Borland is gone.

Post #308,365 by Andrew Grygus 5/6/09 8:55:29 PM Reply	Borland is gone. Micro Focus - long time publisher of COBOL for PCs, is buying Borland for US $75 million and will dissolve the company keeping the Application Lifecycle Management tools and probably some developers. Micro Focus also bought a big chunk of Compuware - their Quality Solutions line for US $80 million along with development, sales and customer support teams. COBOL sales must be doing pretty well. Borland's development tools aren't affected - that subsidiary was already sold to Embarcadero last year.
Post #308,366 by folkert 5/6/09 9:00:34 PM Reply	COBOL is being renewed unusually... effectively. COBOL is still being used in People Soft for MUCH of the Core BI and other integration pieces. Hmmm, does that sound I hear, sound like Oracle buying Micro Focus... soon?
Post #308,374 by dmcarls 5/7/09 12:52:27 AM 5/7/09 12:53:17 AM Reply	Looks like most COBOL support is offshore http://www.google.com/trends?q=cobol The USA is in the top ten (tenth place). Edited by dmcarls May 7, 2009, 12:53:17 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #308,367 by Another Scott 5/6/09 9:20:45 PM Reply	I'm surprised CodeGear is still around. Microsoft did their best to kill their compiler business, but I think they cut their own throat when their cheapest C++ product was nearly $1k. I use C++ Builder 5 occasionally for some maintenance work, but got turned off when I "upgraded" to version 6 and a lot of our code stopped compiling. (Yes, there were probably some errors in the code, but it worked and writing code is just a small part of what we do.) So, we're still on v5, and I'm slowly learning Python for any new software that I need. Still, they must be doing something right to still be around. Having a profitable tiny market share beats going belly up. Cheers, Scott.

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