CodeGear: still for sale

New strategic direction: Borland competes with itself

Keeping up with Borland’s corporate plans is a challenge. In early 2006, it said it would see its IDE tools business, including the Delphi and JBuilder products. Nine months later it formed CodeGear, but as a wholly-owned subsidiary, saying that nobody came up with a good enough offer. “It was obvious that the positive cash flow from the IDE business was much more attractive for us,” Borland’s Mike Hulme told Reg Dev here.…