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Re:Why did Borland fail? by kriro on Sunday June 14, 2015 @08:22AM (#9714631)
Slightly off topic but I think they would be a great acquisition target for Google. Acquire, open source, push hard. I think there's tremendous strategic advantage in providing the goto tools for programmers. Could be well worth giving up a nice revenue stream, too. [it's similar to providing scholarships and other "early access" recruiting measures]
Re:Why did Borland fail? by mahmud on Sunday June 14, 2015 @08:45AM (#9714689)
Please don't! IntelliJ is both perfect, and very affordable. Google will only ruin it by neglecting for a few years, before shuttering it down.

JetBrains, stick to what you do best.

Re:Why did Borland fail? by on_and_off on Sunday June 14, 2015 @11:56AM (#9715312)
The only way I can see this kind of acquisition make sense would be in order to push Kotlin as a Java replacement on Android. It looks like Google intends to go the Java 8 way though, so that's not terribly likely.