Re:Internals of a Turbo Pascal Compiler
by lobster_johnson on Friday September 11, 2015 @02:00PM
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Don't forget the first pivot: Inprise.
Borland decided that the new shiny thing was "enterprise client/server middleware" — whatever that was. The new Inprise products were oriented towards building distributed client/server database apps using DCOM and the all-too-obviously-dead-on-arrival CORBA.
This was right around the time the web took off, but before the inane "enterprise Java application server" market exploded. Borland had a hard time competing with Java, and they started to neglect the stuff that had made Delphi such a powerful proposition in the first place.
Borland decided that the new shiny thing was "enterprise client/server middleware" — whatever that was. The new Inprise products were oriented towards building distributed client/server database apps using DCOM and the all-too-obviously-dead-on-arrival CORBA.
This was right around the time the web took off, but before the inane "enterprise Java application server" market exploded. Borland had a hard time competing with Java, and they started to neglect the stuff that had made Delphi such a powerful proposition in the first place.