January 18, 2003
Together is dead, long live Together!?
Well if it werent official before, I just checked out togethersoft.com and it now has Borland written all over it, seems everything must be final now $82.5 million in cash and 9,050,000 shares of Borland common stock later. Wonder how it will affect togethersoft customers. I personally use IDEA for development and dont think I could ever happily use another product, but I always thought Together was kinda cool. I don't think that you can really compare IDEA with it though. I wouldnt really classify Together as an "IDE" per se, It's more a "UML/Coding/Designing Experience". Where as IDEA is like having your own personal Java fairy dancing through your code, anticipating your every thought and keystroke.
As far as JBuilder goes, personally I think its crap, and its overpriced warmed over crap at that. Here's my prediction, pain.I think Borland is gonna dump it and Together, drop support for websphere studio plugin after all IBM is acquiring Rational, and create they're own new JBuilder based on Eclipse with Together built into it as a new flagship product JBuilder X. Then there will be 2 overpriced Eclipse based products! how lucky for us Java developers.
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Andre Mermegas
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January 18, 2003 12:58 AM
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There is no need in JBuilder on Eclipse platform. Out-of-box JDT already feature-overhelms it. And.. you can still use Together WSE with Eclipse (after some mumbo with LicenseLoader, of course).
