Back in 2005, CORBA was still pretty much the foundation of Nokia Networks products, no idea where they went to nowadays.
And to this day COM's stronghold on Windows APIs only increased, as the Windows team is very much anti-.NET, most Win32 C APIs are from Windows XP days.
Agree on the other Borland stuff, I was a mostly happy customer starting with Turbo Basic 1.0, Turbo Pascal 4.4, Turbo C 2.0 and Turbo C++ 1.0, until 2000's, using most versions of their products.
My point was that not that Borland-as-Inprise failed because of COM/CORBA, but because the attempt to get into the enterprise application server space.
Early Java-based applications servers like iPlanet, NetDynamics, and WebLogic all did CORBA, but they fit into the shift to the web, and that wasn't where Borland were going. In fact, I don't think they had any web tech at all aside from Borland Enterprise Server, which was another J2EE thing competing in the same space.
And to this day COM's stronghold on Windows APIs only increased, as the Windows team is very much anti-.NET, most Win32 C APIs are from Windows XP days.
Agree on the other Borland stuff, I was a mostly happy customer starting with Turbo Basic 1.0, Turbo Pascal 4.4, Turbo C 2.0 and Turbo C++ 1.0, until 2000's, using most versions of their products.