> Are there any 3rd party component developers big enough to take this on? > In financial terms and scale. > > That appears to me, to be the only route that would keep Delphi going as > I know it.
Unlikely, the only companies probably able to borrow that kind of money have been moving towards .NET for the last couple years. My guess is that Borland heard about the Oracle/JBOSS situation and thought they might throw their name in the list of "buy me" products. Problem is with Oracles latest purchases and changes in architecture Java is their go forward and that means JBOSS is probably on the buying block. Truth is I honestly don't know who would be interested. It would have to be someone willing to go up against MS and not have a heavily vested interest in Java. I would suppose there are a couple of quasi-interested companies talking to Borland already and Borland may be feeling the market to see what that toolset is worth. Problem is if someone doesn't bite, it is really going to hit them hard as their stock price would take a hit. If they can move the product, I am guessing their stock goes up. This move smells like a stock play, but more likely the new CEO sees this as the best way for Borland to survive by getting rid of an ever shrinking product base. Personally, I would have looked into spinning off the tools into a separate division and gotten really aggressive in the pricing model. __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
