Borland's developer tools group plans to release single language versions of Borland Developer Studio, the company’s development environment for Microsoft Windows and .NET applications. Bringing back the popular Turbo moniker, the new Borland Turbo products are expected to offer low-cost, language-specific rapid application development capabilities for students, hobbyist developers, occupational developers as well as individual professionals.
The Turbo product set includes Turbo Delphi® for Win32, Turbo Delphi for .NET, Turbo C++ and Turbo C#. Each version will be available in two editions: Turbo Explorer, a free downloadable version, and Turbo Professional, a version priced less than USD 500 which is designed to accept thousands of available third-party tools, components and plug-ins. All Turbo editions are expected to enable developers to rapidly build high performance GUI, Database, Web, and Web Services applications for Microsoft Windows. Turbo Delphi for .NET and Turbo C# support the Microsoft .NET and ASP.NET platforms.
Zack Urlocker, now executive vice president for marketing and products at MySQL, and former product manager for Turbo Pascal and Delphi, explained the importance of today’s announcement, "The Turbo brand and more importantly, the focus on developer productivity, is just what the industry needs. Borland has been legendary in providing more than 20 years of software craftsmanship."
Gene Wang was previously vice president of the languages business unit at Borland, and today he is chairman and CEO of Bitfone Corporation. "In the 90’s, Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++ brought the power of programming to everyone," said Wang. "And now, Turbo power is back and ready to rev up the next generation of programmers to full productivity."
Turbo Delphi, Turbo Delphi for .NET, Turbo C++ and Turbo C# will be generally available in the third quarter of 2006. The Turbo Explorer editions of these products will be free. Pricing for the Turbo Professional editions will be under USD 500. Student academic pricing for the Turbo Professional editions will be under USD 100. |
