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And only Borland can go to the boardroom. For readers too young, or too busy tripping out to Led Zeppelin, to catch the early 1970s reference in the headline, it was said that only Richard Nixon had the anti-Communist credentials to negotiate a thaw in Cold War rivalries with China.
Borland, similarly, believes that its pro-developer history gives it the credibility to align software development and business management practices. "Software Delivery Optimization" is the new buzz-phrase that Borland promotes for this vision. Having acquired several well-regarded products with its purchase of Starbase and TogetherSoft, Borland has a chance to bring into the development mainstream several business-oriented practices that are all too rare today.
The company's challenge will be deploying its limited resources appropriately to deliver seamless integration between these tools while furthering the evolutions of its several development environments and cross-platform libraries and capabilities. In short, Borland has a lot on its plate.
The "SDO" vision extends beyond their .NET- or Windows-specific tools, of course, but Borland's application-lifecycle tools will generally be used from Windows...