$23 million, to be exact! OK, for that price Embarcadero Technologies got a whole bunch of other proprietary development tools, including IDEs for trendy languages like PHP and Ruby, as well as old favorites like C++ and Delphi. Borland had been open about looking for a buyer for its tools division for some time now, but perhaps had trouble finding one due to the increasing dominance of the free, open source Eclipse, in the Java space and just about everywhere else. Embarcadero is currently a designer of development tools for database developers, so perhaps it hopes to steer JBuilder users to its database products, while giving its database developers more options. Just last week, one of the JBuilder developers expounded to Dr. Dobbs on JBuilder’s Application Factories feature, which intends to make it easier to develop specialized apps — something that may be of interest to a database programming specialist. Technology Industry