Borland Acquires BoldSoft For .Net Development Era

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To that end, Borland this week announced that it has acquired the assets of privately held BoldSoft MDE In Stockholm, Sweden, with plans to include the acquired company's design-driven technology into future Borland tools for .Net development.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

BoldSoft's existing technology is currently integrated into Borland Delphi 7 Studio and Borland Enterprise Studio for Windows. The firm's Bold suite of products enable low-cost development of applications for Internet, mobile and enterprise network environments.

The application design technology is geared to accelerate the process of application and Web services development on Microsoft's .Net framework, Borland officials said.

Microsoft is also quietly developing a major upgrade of Visual Studio.Net, code-named "Everett," that is optimized for Windows.Net Server 2003. That toolset is due during the first half of 2003, sources have said.

The .Net framework is embedded in Microsoft's next Windows upgrade, Windows.Net Server 2003, due early next year.