Software tool developer Borland announced today that it will be releasing single language versions of Borland Developer Studio under the Turbo name to reflect its 1983 release of Turbo Pascal®, one of the first integrated development environments available for the PC. Borland will release both free and professional versions, the press release states:
The Turbo product set includes Turbo Delphi® for Win32, Turbo Delphi for .NET®, Turbo C++® and Turbo C#®. Each version will be available in two editions: Turbo Explorer, a free downloadable version, and Turbo Professional, a version priced less than $500 which is designed to accept thousands of available third-party tools, components and plug-ins. All Turbo editions enable developers to rapidly build high performance GUI, Database, Web, and Web Services applications for Microsoft Windows. Turbo Delphi for .NET and Turbo C# support the Microsoft .NET and ASP.NET platforms. More information is available at www.turboexplorer.com.
Previously in February Borland announced that it will spin off its IDE business as part of its move into the Software Delivery Optimization space.
The main competitor for the free products is likely Microsoft’s Visual Studio Express line which are also free single language tools. Borland executives note that their tools offer native language support which Microsoft’s tools do not.