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Acting CEO Arnold ‘Leading Candidate’ at Borland


Company also announces Core SDP will be based solely on Eclipse

By Jennifer deJong
September 15, 2005 — 
Borland Software will likely appoint acting CEO Scott Arnold to the top spot vacated in July by Dale Fuller. “I believe Scott Arnold would be an exceptional CEO for Borland. He is the leading candidate for the job,” said the company’s chief marketing officer, Rick Jackson, in an interview with SD Times late last month.

Borland also announced that, going forward, its application life-cycle management (ALM) offering, Core SDP, will be based solely on the Eclipse open-source framework. “We chose Eclipse because it is cross-platform and supports multiple languages, and because of the ecosystem that has emerged around it,” said Jackson. The current version of Core SDP, released in March, is available on both Borland PrimeTime (the framework underlying its popular Java IDE, JBuilder) and on Eclipse, said Pat Kerpan, Borland’s chief technology officer. The news follows the company’s May announcement that next year’s release of JBuilder, code-named Peleton, will be built on Eclipse.

‘That Was Our Mistake’
Jackson admitted that the company has in recent months caused confusion in the marketplace, creating the impression that it was all but abandoning its developer products, such as JBuilder, in favor of Core SDP.

Scott Arnold“We have said [to Wall Street] that our focus is not on IDEs; it’s on ALM. It sounded like we are leaving IDEs behind,” he said. “That was our mistake.” Borland’s new message is that the developer role is the central role in the overall life cycle, which also includes line-of-business executives, project managers, analysts, architects and testers. “You also need expertise around technology processes, skills and mentoring,” said Jackson, referring to Borland’s professional services offerings, which augment Core SDP.

Borland delivered Core Analyst, Core Architect, Core Developer and Core Tester in March. Future Core SDP releases will provide role-specific tools for nontechnical project managers and executives, as well as the ability for customers to create their own role-specific tools, said Kerpan. Borland did not specify delivery dates. Nor did it confirm that the appointment of Arnold, Borland’s former executive vice president and COO, was official, or indicate when the company will announce its new CEO. “I can’t say. I’m not on the board of directors,” said Jackson.

Asked to elaborate on an earlier plan to support the Microsoft .NET platform in Core SDP, Jackson said the ALM offering will allow developers to deploy applications on that platform.

.NET developers who want to make use of Borland Together modeling tools and its CaliberRM requirements offerings do so in Visual Studio, using Borland products designed for Microsoft’s development environment, he said.


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