Borland CEO withdraws

**Sascha Willems** · 08-07-2005, 09:13 AM

Taking full responsibility for the bad results that Borland ''managed'' to make within the last two quarters, CEO and president Dale L. Fuller withdrew from his job.

So this is the second quarter in a row where Borland missed the expectations and made losses again. This time it was 0.19 to 0.21 dollars per share.

Everyone knowing at least a little bit about economics should understand that this is a real bad sign for Borland, since it's not the usual practice to just withdraw after bad quarter results (since every company around has some good and some bad quarters). So this just seems like another step on the way down for Borland, whose image already suffered very heavy. Sad to see how a bad management can drive such a great company as Borland against a wall...

<font size=-2>Infos taken from german IT-newsmagazine heise online</font>

**Sly** · 08-07-2005, 10:31 AM

With the quality of Delphi releases dropping with the release of Delphi 8 and then even worse with Delphi 2005 (and not holding much hope for the next version), this is not all that surprising.

**savage** · 08-07-2005, 10:32 AM

They have lost their way and need to get back on track. One can only hope that it does not spell the end of Borland.

**Specis** · 08-07-2005, 04:00 PM

I have to disagree with the Borland Losing there way part of this,

Sure when Delphi 2005 was released i was majorly disappointed that they Great Delphi 7 IDE had been replaced with a Clunky MSVS Type IDE. and i still prefer the Delphi 7 IDE, But Borland 2005 is every bit as Great as Delphi 7. i have lost no usablilty. I havnt lost any features all Its all been gains in the Form of C# Right there and .Net being there too.

The .Net Framework isnt going anywhere, Microsoft are gonna make sure of that. and with mono its basically gonna be one linux too. so it is just a case of suck it up and use it

Im as always eagerly awaiting new on any future versions of Delphi, and read somewhere the other month about the inclusion of C++ into Delphi in the next version. which would be handy.. if only to figure out why i cant seem to pass arrays to none Delphi made DLL's

**WILL** · 08-07-2005, 08:06 PM

:lol: Well if they start including C++ into the Delphi Studio, they better start calling the language by its good and proper name, Object Pascal. :?

As far as the CEO withdrawing, it seems that either upper management wants to hunt heads for the problems at Borland or that someone there 'gets it' and the problems are being looked at and taken note of. I seriously hope it's the latter.

**xGTx** · 09-07-2005, 12:28 AM

One of you guys should go apply for CEO! Bring Borland back on it's feet!

**Sly** · 09-07-2005, 12:30 AM

The IDE has been called Borland Developer Studio, or BDS, since Delphi 8. They won't change the name of the language back to Object Pascal after changing it to Delphi a few releases back. And yes, the next release includes Delphi, Delphi.NET and C++ in the one IDE.

**Clootie** · 10-07-2005, 06:11 PM

Sly, but they have changed naming of base classes from VCL to CLX and back to VCL. So, everything is possible.

**WILL** · 10-07-2005, 06:44 PM

Well it looks like we are seeing the birth of the NEW kind of Visual Studio here.

I wonder if it will start supporting other new languages and forigen compilers.

Chrome would be a neat addon. :lol: But I think that it's more the competition than something that will be of benifit to Borland.

**Sly** · 10-07-2005, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by Clootie

Sly, but they have changed naming of base classes from VCL to CLX and back to VCL. So, everything is possible.

CLX was in addition to VCL. So VCL was never renamed. It just had an inferior sibling for a while.

Remember Borland's attempt to reinvent themselves with the Inprise name? Yeah, we all know how well that went.