What do you think Borland will announce in regards to bridging technologies for Java and .NET? Who really benefits? Tell us in Talk to the Editors of DevX.
Borland's CEO makes vague allusions implying his company will provide the missing link between Java and .NET. Will Borland pick up where the estrangement between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems left off?
by Lori Piquet, DevX Editor-in-Chief
August 8, 2001
ugust 8, 2001—If one envisions Sun Microsystems and Microsoft as, oh, I don't know, peevish comic book villains, each sticking dogmatically by their own proprietary weaponry in the fight for world domination, then Borland CEO Dale L. Fuller is donning his cape.
Or at least, that's what it sounded like for a moment last week. Borland, Fuller implied during an investors' meeting last week, will provide the connective tissue that developers need to port Java to .NET and .NET to Java. Borland officials, however, downplayed the remarks, saying that the company had "researched" the possibility of cross-compiling Java and .NET code but found the technical challenges of doing so inhibitive.
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ugust 8, 2001—If one envisions Sun Microsystems and Microsoft as, oh, I don't know, peevish comic book villains, each sticking dogmatically by their own proprietary weaponry in the fight for world domination, then Borland CEO Dale L. Fuller is donning his cape.
