Borland SilkTest 2008 Release Notes

Let's imagine that Borland SilkTest 2008 has been released and available for download, so we are going through the first few lines of release notes for Borland Silk Test 2008:

What's New
This section lists significant enhancements and changes that were made for the SilkTest 2008 release

Integration in development process
SilkTest 2008 introduces Eclipse plug-in to allow test development to be done within the Eclipse IDE.

Multi-language support
SilkTest 2008 implements the ability of using 4Test, Java or Python as coding language.

Flex Support
Silk Test 2008 now supports the following technologies Adobe Flex 2.x and 3.0

I hope you understood it were the imaginable release notes, but I still anticipate Borland has very strong commitment to Silk Test and that we will see all features described above and other great things coming over the next months.

Borland SilkTest

From today's news :

Borland Software Corp (BORL) will cut about 8 percent of its work force, or about 90 employees, and close facilities in six locations as part of an ongoing restructuring plan, Borland said in a filing on Friday.

I haven't tracked the performance of BORL for a while, but today's entire market capitalization based on current $2.9 per share price is around $210 million. It seems the best chances Borland SilkTest has to survive is if someone like Google, HP, Oracle or Microsoft decides to buy Borland out while the company is cheap. In the same time I personally afraid of is that the purchaser may not feel sturdily how superb SilkTest comparing with Selenium or HP QTP and soon will dump Borland SilkTest.