In May 2008, the world's attention seemed to be focused on the covert battle of Microsoft's billion-dollar acquisition of Yahoo. While Yahoo was troubled by the question of whether it should sell itself for $50 billion or $40 billion, Borland, once a challenger to the Microsoft Empire, sold its legendary IDE (Integrated Development Environment) business, which had established its reputation, to another company for $23 million. Aside from a few die-hard supporters of Borland who expressed nostalgic regret, this news hardly drew any attention from mainstream American IT media and quietly disappeared in the ocean of news about the Microsoft acquisition case...