Borland today announced CaliberRM 6.0 for requirements management. Part
of the Borland ALM portfolio of solutions, CaliberRM 6.0 is designed to address growing customer
demand for faster delivery of high quality software. This latest release helps software development
teams to better understand and keep up with changing business needs; expressed as "requirements"; to
reduce the costs of software rework.
With so much new functionality centered on the .NET Framework in Delphi 8,
plus the implementation of a new Help browser, Borland took a fresh approach to the documentation.
This article discusses the structure of the new help system, the new XML production system and some D8 Help tips.
Read the March 2004 installment of the Borland .Net Development Newsletter.
The newsletter contains information, news, and links.
Borland South Africa Offers Free Development Workshops
25-Mar-04
Borland is hosting a series of free workshops aimed at enabling delegates to
produce better software, faster, through eliminating inefficiencies and encouraging an innovative approach.
Sessions will be hosted at Borland's offices in Glenhove, South Africa.
Visual Studio Magazine presented its annual Readers Choice Awards last night
during VSLive! 2004. These awards, chosen by the magazine's readers, honor excellent software in 23 development
categories, in addition to Editors Choice awards given to new products deserving particular attention. Borland
won an award for C#Builder for the Microsoft .NET Framework in the Development Tools category.
JBuilder X Enterprise includes software from Altova XMLSPY, Crystal Reports,
Oracle, salesforce.com, Sun and Sybase. These Premium Tools are available as part of the default install
for JBuilder X Enterprise and Borland Enterprise Studio for Java or can be download by JBuilder registered users.
Including both evolutions and revolutions, this year's eWEEK Excellence Awards
finalists reflect the efforts of both established industry leaders and emerging innovators. Borland
Enterprise Studio for Java 7 has been nominated in the Application & Web Services Development category.
The release of Borland C++ BuilderX 1.5 brings several new solutions for
Symbian OS developers including the first, native C++ RAD support, UML modeling solutions and
Web Services.
QualityCentral reports for Delphi 8 have been updated to reflect the
latest status of Delphi 8 Update 2. Forty-two bugs have been marked as closed after their status
was automatically updated from Borland's internal tracking system.
Software Development Magazine Announces Winners of 14th Jolt Awards
18-Mar-04
Winners of the 14th Annual Software Development Jolt Product Excellence
and Productivity Awards were announced Wednesday 17th March by the editors of Software Development
magazine. Borland Together Edition for Eclipse 6.1 has won a Productivity Award in the Design and
Analysis Tools category.
An update is now available to download for registered users of JBuilder X
and Enterprise Studio 7 for Java. This update includes fixes for: EJB Development, Web Development and
Web Services, EJBs and JSPs, Mobile Development, Refactoring, IDE and Debugger, and more.
Meet the challenge of achieving high-performance J2EE applications!
Borland and Segue guide you through an effective approach to J2EE performance management in this
free on-demand Web seminar.
Registered users can now download update #2 for Delphi 8 for .NET as well
as updates to Rave and InterBase. Together these updates will significantly improve your Delphi 8
experience.
Borland President and CEO Dale L. Fuller and SVP and CFO Kenneth R. Hahn
are scheduled to deliver a presentation on behalf of the company at the JP Morgan Small Cap Conference
in Denver. The presentation is scheduled for 10.45 a.m. MST Friday 12th March 2004 and will be available
via live Webcast.
Borland JBuilder X Developer: Gen X Java
09-Mar-04
Now in its 10th iteration, JBuilder X shows a striking evolution from its
slow and buggy beginnings into what is perhaps the leading Java development tool. This version
features support for Windows and Linux, along with Palm and PocketPC handheld as well as Java-based
mobile phones.
Borland will be presenting Delphi 8 in locations throughout the US. They'll
show you all the reasons why you should make Delphi 8 part of your .NET plans. Here are the currently confirmed locations.
InfoCan Management and The DSW Group present a 2-day tour across Canada and the
United States showcasing Delphi 8 and how to migrate to the Microsoft .NET framework. With technical tips
and techniques to leverage your Delphi knowledge into the next generation of development.
Ramesh Theivendran, an Architect responsible for dbExpress and
Borland Data Providers (BDP) introduces the basics of .NET remoting and shows how to remote data
from one tier to another. This article uses DB2 but applies to any database supported by BDP.
