Borland Software has announced it will offer a complete
suite of .net application development tools.
Borland also renamed Sidewinder, its .net IDE (intergrated
development environment). It is now called Borland C#Builder, and
is on track for a mid-year worldwide release, said Michael
Swindell, Borland's director of product development for RAD (rapid
application development) tools.
C#Builder is the core of Borland's .net portfolio, but it will
be complemented by several other tools tailored for other phases of
the development cycle, comprising a complete application lifecycle
management lineup.
Several of those complementary products are already available,
such as Borland's Optimizeit Profiler for the Microsoft .net
Framework, a performance tuning tool released in February.
Also available now are Borland's .net-supporting CaliberRM
requirements-management software and StarTeam collaboration and
change management system.
Both products were picked up in Borland's January acquisition of
Starbase.
Borland's Together line of design tools is another component of
its planned .net portfolio. A tailored .net edition of Together
will be released around the time C#Builder launches.
Borland aims to offer a suite of its .net tools, including its
design, development, collaboration and optimisation products, by
the end of the year.
Borland will fully support Windows Server 2003 as the deployment
platform for .net applications, Swindell said. Borland's InterBase
embedded database is Windows Server 2003-ready.
Pricing details on C#Builder will be available nearer to the
product's launch.