Delphi, Kylix, Java, Eclipse, PHP, Ruby - and is Sun Microsystems right to suggest that Delphi "got it wrong"? … just a few of the subjects we talk about with Borland/DevoCo Chief Scientist, Allen Bauer, in this exclusive Bitwise interview…

Earlier this year, Borland – a company whose reputation was based upon the excellence of its development tools – announced that it would be divesting itself of its developer products including JBuilder, C++Builder, C#Builder and Delphi. In the months since then, the development product team (the Developer Tools Group, informally known as 'DevCo') has continued to work as a loosely connected offshoot of Borland while negotiations to find a buyer have been pursued. At the time of writing, no announcement has yet been made on the longterm future of this group. Bitwise contacted the group’s Chief Scientist, Allen Bauer, to ask a few questions about past, present and future developments related to Borland programming products. This is what he told us…

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS or: Life After Borland…