Just a quick blog post to say that I'm really excited about ActiveState's Komodo 4. Javascript debugging in an IDE is exactly what I want. I know I'll be upgrading.

I find it hard to trust Borland/DTG at the moment. The hard part is because when I look back at their history it's full of contradiction and failing to deliver. I'm really heartbroken because I love Delphi and still think it's the finest Win32 development tool out there.

Today Borland announced that it is divesting its IDE business and going forward with ALM by purchasing Segue for about $100 million. I have previously discussed Borland's future in regards to its IDE business and how it relates to their ALM strategy; I also advocated the divestiture of the IDE business then and am looking forward to it now.

I went to the MS Launch event for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. I have to say, MS puts on a good event: decent presentations, a bag of goodies (free Visual Studio 2005 Standard), a roomful of vendors, and tons of people. Besides that, this event was free. I didn't eat their boxed lunch, so I won't comment on their catering, although they didn't look very appealing to me.

A while back (December 7th, 2005), I went to see John Kaster show off Delphi 2006. I liked what I saw. I really liked the live templating system; the fact that it was customizable and very extensible. IMO, this embraced the classic Delphi attitude of extensibility that brought forth component-based development.

I'm very pleased to see the Delphi Roadmap. Borland deserves all the accolades they are receiving at the moment. I'm much more hopeful about Delphi's future.

Recently, there has been some positive marketing collateral produced from Borland. DeXter is also due for release very soon, historically timed with BorCon. Despite these positive moves, the fate of Delphi continues to be a hot topic.