Borland Ships Borland® Developer Studio with Delphi® 2006
Customers enthusiastically support Borland's new multi-language developer environment for Microsoft Windows and .NET
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Dec 05, 2005 : Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ NM: BORL), the global leader for Software Delivery Optimization, today announced general availability of Borland® Developer Studio, Delphi® Edition – the company's multi-language developer environment for Microsoft® Windows® and .NET applications. It is the only integrated development environment (IDE) that will include support for Delphi (both Windows and .NET), C, C++ and C# applications within a single environment.
The release now shipping includes the Borland Delphi 2006 and Borland C#Builder® 2006 rapid application development (RAD) environments, with a "technology preview" of Borland's C++Builder® 2006 RAD environment. Borland Developer Studio includes powerful new productivity and performance-boosting capabilities, designed to enable software teams to eliminate tedious development tasks so they can quickly and cost-effectively deliver enterprise-class Windows applications.
"We've received outstanding feedback thus far about the overall quality and new capabilities in Delphi 2006, and are pleased to see avid, longtime users responding so enthusiastically to this release," said David Intersimone, vice president of developer relations and chief evangelist at Borland. "I'd like to thank our R&D team and the community overall for their dedication to Delphi, and look forward to delivering on the public roadmap recently shared at our 2005 Developer Conference."
Please see http://bdn.borland.com/ for details on the Borland Developer Studio roadmap.
AvailabilityDelphi 2006 and C#Builder 2006, both part of Borland Developer Studio, are now fully available. To allow C++ developers to get a first look at new C/C++ features, the C++Builder 2006 language personality is being offered as a "technology preview" in this initial release. Borland intends to follow up the technology preview version of C++Builder 2006 with a downloadable update (free to all Borland Developer Studio customers) by the end of December that will update the C++ personality to full production status.
To help our customers make informed decisions about the timing of their purchase, we will be publishing additional details about this release of Borland Developer Studio and the upcoming update on http://bdn.borland.com.
Customer Endorsements"Our business is global in nature and depends on delivering high-performance, enterprise-grade software in numerous countries and development sites around the world. Unlike most other Windows and .NET development environments, Delphi allows us to focus on building business solutions instead of low-level application services or tedious GUI components. New productivity and ALM integration features in Delphi 2006 will go a long way in further helping us focus on delivering worldwide solutions, regardless of the country or location, more quickly and efficiently than before."
- Jeff Broadhead, Software Development Manager at Synergy Worldwide
"As a long standing Delphi user, I am impressed with the level of high performance and quality Borland is delivering in Delphi 2006. Agile development capabilities that promote productivity and business value are critical to developing capable, feature rich and reliable software products. New Delphi features like improved memory management will allow us to build better performing software faster. The support for .NET will help our team to migrate some of the existing projects faster and have a well known environment for future .NET development."
- Nebojsa Djogo, President, Software River solutions, Inc.
"Our business depends on developing high-performance, enterprise-grade software, and Delphi has been a big asset in helping us deliver on this challenge. In Delphi 2006, new productivity and more advanced lifecycle management capabilities will further help us to focus on delivering scalable, robust Practice Management and Electronic Medical Records software for the Healthcare Industry."
- Jim Elden, VP, Accumedic Computer Systems, Inc.
"Delphi has always been instrumental to our company's ability to deliver vertical software solutions. Having delivered several projects based on Borland MDA / Delphi 7, we were well aware of the productivity gains to be had with executable models, but Delphi 2006 takes it to a new level with ECOTM III. If you thought that MDA was only for large shops think again. If you have been waiting for just the right tool to increase your productivity and get your ALM vision into gear, Delphi 2006 is it, hands down."
- David Farrell-Garcia, CTO, Whidbey Island Software LLC
"Stable, snappy, brilliant. I use Delphi 2006 for ALL my Win32® development, and when I need a .NET application, I have the freedom to code it in C# or Delphi."
- Bryce K. Nielsen, President & CEO, SysOnyx, Inc.
"As a long standing Delphi user and third party developer, I am impressed with the level of high performance and quality Borland is delivering in Delphi 2006. Agile development capabilities that promote productivity and business value are critical to OneDomain's delivery of timely software solutions for audience analysis, sales efforts and commercial scheduling for the Television Industry. New Delphi features like ECO III integration, improved refactoring and bullet proof memory manager will help our teams maintain OneDomain's reputation as a company with fresh ideas and cutting edge solutions for its client base. With Delphi 2006, OneDomain will continue to deliver the future of TV Media Sales."
- Eduardo A. Salgado, President, OneDomain, Inc.
"We have successfully migrated several very large applications from Delphi 1 through Delphi 2006 with only minor changes required. Our Integrated Configurator platform depends on the high performance Delphi compiler and its continued support for Windows 32 development. The applications we build from this platform benefit from the components available as well as the seamless integration to databases."
- Claude Vignali, President, FifthOrder Technologies
"The new features in ECO III are enough for me to want to start using Delphi 2006 straight away. All of the extra IDE productivity enhancements like live code templates with user creatable scripts and templates via code completion, new refactorings, the change bar, the smart indentation and the full Together® support that allows non ECO classes to be viewed and modified visually, all mean that Delphi 2006 is destined to be the only development environment that I will be using."
- Dick Walker , Founder , Granite Solutions, Software Development & Consulting
For more information about Borland Developer Studio products, see http://www.borland.com/us/products/index.html.
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