Well Turbo Delphi and Turbo C++ along with new boys Turbo Delphi for .Net and Turbo C#. No Turbo Java just yet but it is promised.

I bought Turbo Pascal 3.0 in 1986 for £49.95. And Turbo C in 1989. Where did all those years go? There has been a feeling that Borland lost their way since the Inprise episode in 97/98 (when Borland changed name and targetted big enterprises) and subsequently with each year a new version of Delphi/CPPBuilder and JBuilder but very expensive products. Meanwhile Microsoft was busy recruiting Borland’s finest and developing C#.

So the Borland spinoff/oiffshoot named Devco releases 4 new products on Tuesday 5th September 2006 aimed at developers like myself (20 years ago!). There are free versions (aimed at Microsoft’s Visual Express development systems) which seem pretty powerful according to their website but until next Tuesday we won’t know.