Borland Buys TogetherSoft. Bye Bye WebGain, VisualCafe, and Competition
InfoWorld: Borland Buying TogetherSoft...
"The acquisition of TogetherSoft will add that company's ControlCenter product to the Borland product line. ControlCenter is a software development collaboration and modeling tool that enables software developers to coordinate their development efforts."
And Borland also gets WebGain Studio, which includes the Java development tool formerly called VisualCafe (one of the first Java IDE's I believe), which TogetherSoft recently purchased. WebGain Studio was a direct competitor to Borland's JBuilder. So I think that's a big part of the story: that Borland has effectively taken another Java IDE off the market. But why isn't this mentioned in the InfoWorld article? In looking around, others do mention this, but I guess the loss of competition is not that big a deal to the press. And I guess it's not that big a deal with an industry pioneering product like VisualCafe bites the dust. I guess it makes Java IDE decisions easier for IT shops.
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