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Techweb: Can Inprise/Borland Rise Again?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 21, 2000

“Inprise/Borland’s latest effort to save itself from certain
death — or acquisition — may be too little too late.”

“Last week at its developer conference, Inprise made several
announcements aimed at reviving interest in the company’s
cross-platform tool strategy for Web app development.”

“Interim president and CEO Dale Fuller said the company’s
JBuilder Java tool — arguably its most valuable product — will
support Apple’s latest operating system for the Mac, OS 10.”

“Fuller also outlined a plan to ship new RAD tools under Project
Kylix, which will expand the capabilities of Inprise’s Delphi and
C++ development tools for Linux.”

More and more people are moving to Linux,” Fuller said.
“There’s a bigger and bigger need for that.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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