Borland busy building tools for Microsoft.Net

Borland is planning to release developer tools for Microsoft's .Net framework starting with the C# language, reports CNet. "Borland had great success with developers in the 1990s with its Delphi programming application, which made it quicker to build visually oriented Windows applications," says the piece. Yes, it did. Of course, at the time it had a genius called Anders Hejlsberg. It's a small world. This same Anders Hejlsberg, who designed Turbo Pascal and Delphi, became Distinguished Engineer and Chief C# Language Architect for Microsoft's .Net framework and the C# programming language. (O'Reilly has a useful interview with him here.) Familiarity with Hejlsberg's ideas could give Borland an edge in this market -- especially since quite a few people seem to be basing their views on ignorance, instead of finding out what's really going on.