Mike Prestwood 1. Bill Gates Retires!
On Friday, June 27, 2008, Bill Gates retired from Microsoft. Mostly.
Borland to sell Delphi, C++Builder, JBuilder, etc.
Borland no longer owns Delphi, C++Builder, JBuilder, Interbase, etc.
Micro Focus buys Borland. The decline of Borland is now complete. The once legendary software company is no more! Okay, for those of us that worked at Borland and those that loved their development tools, it pretty much was over years ago. For me, I'm still a big fan of the CodeGear development tools, especially Delphi and Prism, but the fanatical culture and clarity of purpose was over when Philippe Kahn left. I've been following Borland ever since I left the company in 1995 and every time I heard of a stupid move, I cringed. I'm sure all of us who have watched the decline of Borland over the years have a list of stupid Borland moves.
MS wants Yahoo. What about MSN? Will Yahoo survive?
Wes Peterson 7. MS secret project -- Milan...thumbs up!
We've had keyboards and mice forever. We've had touch-screens and drawing pads for a long time, now. Get ready for something entirely new and different, the "surface!"
Microsoft, the company everybody loves to hate, has just doubled the value of their Office 2007 products.
Oracle to purchase Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. The driving force behind this deal was Oracle's desire to acquire Java and Solaris.
Here's a great marketing idea, cooked up, no doubt, by some MBA: Punish your customers for being your customers. Sound crazy? Several well-known software and service vendors don't seem to think so.
Borland's annual developer conference was held this month in Long Beach CA. Attending the conference for Prestwood were Scott Wehrly, Mike Prestwood, and Kim Berry.
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