Borland selling Delphi and JBuilder

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Feb 092006
 

Borland has decided to sell its flagship Borland Developer Studio (Delphi, C++ Builder and C# Builder) and JBuilder to concentrate resources on their Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). See this article on Computer Weekly, their press-release, or numerous weblog entries on the Borland site.
When Microsoft lowered its prices for Visual Studio, and other companies like Oracle and IBM are giving away IDE’s, whilst Borland only increased their prices, I knew something was going to happen. Now we all know what it is.

 Posted by at 09:37

Transfer

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Feb 052006
 

Friday I signed my contract with Transfer Consulting, part of the Transfer Group. My focus will change back from DBA/system-administration to development. Yeah. Oracle development, so the focus will be on Java. You might have noticed my writings were more about Java lately. Now you know why!

Because it has been some time I did some development in Oracle(tools), I will follow some courses first. But they are done in-house, since Transfer has its own education division. That’s how they started 10 years ago: some Oracle teachers started an independent education company.

I will start my new job February 13th, so this week I will be “between jobs”.

 Posted by at 14:13

Free J2EE course

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Feb 012006
 

If you need an online course in J2EE, and don’t have much money to spend, then go here. The course is free and will start Feb 15th.

 Posted by at 23:52

Bush’s Djihad

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Feb 012006
 

Bush delivered his “State of the Union” yesterday. Reading it gives me a feeling of calling for Djihad.

We love our freedom, and we will fight to keep it.

Freedom is important, but let’s not fight evil with evil.

 Posted by at 09:02
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