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January 7, 2009

Tod Nielsen From Borland to VMWare

Tod Nielsen moves on and Borland's future gets under scrutiny. Too good Delphi is not involved any more...

posted by marcocantu @ 11:46AM | 8 Comments [0 Pending]

Tod Nielsen From Borland to VMWare 

Serves them right. I hate salesmen, they should all 
be put to work in the fields. They produce nothing, 
promise everything, deliver nothing and ripoff all 
the money and assets from businesses that they care 
nothing about, while the real workers struggle to 
survive. Never miss a chance to do them a bad turn. 
They always burn out and end up selling wind-up toys 
from a street stall, while the skilled workers go on 
and on and leave them far behind.

Comment by Steve M [http://www.objecttree.com] on January 7, 16:18

Tod Nielsen From Borland to VMWare 

Seems Borland is finally lost. Thanks God Delphi is
safe now. Count with my dollar for buying the
trademark or may be they are going to pay us to get
it... they have been sistematically distroying the
Borland name since years. Its a sad picture but it was
a company suicide, what a pitty.

Comment by Javier Santo Domingo on January 7, 18:12

Tod Nielsen From Borland to VMWare 

It's my contention that Delphi and the programming 
products were the life preserver that kept them 
afloat.  I don't know anything about finance, but I'll 
bet the numbers were arranged to promote the ALM side 
of the business, while the coding products kept the 
pump flowing.

My big "Awwwww Krap!" moment is that we use VMWare and 
are expanding it's role in our business.  I hate to 
see the CEO with coke bottle glasses start cooking up 
things at that company.  Diane Greene, where are you 
when we need you!!!! 

Comment by Terry Kellum on January 7, 18:33

Tod Nielsen From Borland to VMWare 

Since when your last job's results hasn't something to
do with your future oportunities? Isn't that Nielsen
guy something like a Microsoftian trojan horse now
behind the walls of another menace to MSFT empire?

Well, maybe they are just rescuing him from sinking in
the same boat they send him to sink :P

Ok, I don't know Tod Nielsen, but "for their results
you'll know them"

Good job Tod :|

Comment by Salvador Gomez Teamoza [http://salvador.oversistemas.com] on January 7, 20:03

Tod Nielsen From Borland to VMWare 

The birth and the sale of CodeGear was apparently 
Tod's decision... and since it ultimately had a 
positive outcome for Delphi, I'll probably praise him 
for his tenure at Borland more than other CEOs of the 
past who used the "cash cow" approach instead.

Comment by Marco Cantù [http://www.marcocantu.com] on January 8, 00:34

Tod Nielsen From Borland to VMWare 

Kinda bittersweet.  Good move for Delphi.  Bad move 
for Borland.  I agree that Delphi is much better off.  
Perhaps he had the foresight to know that Borland 
would never take Delphi where it needed to go?
Still, seems like a bunch of smoke and mirrors there.
Code Monkey hate subterfuge!!!!  ;-) 

Comment by Terry Kellum on January 8, 08:46

Tod Nielsen From Borland to VMWare 

I bet he'll do it the Borland way, change vmware's
focus to something else, change the company name to
inprise and back, the change it to silverware, with a
subsidiary called vmgear, then sell it to the highest
bidder.

Comment by Osama Alassiry [http://osama.alassiry.com/] on January 11, 13:40

Tod Nielsen From Borland to VMWare 

 Osama wrote "with a subsidiary called vmgear"...

Borland bought VMgear a while back but recently they
decided they didn't want the name anymore, so I got
the domain name (all legal, direct from Borland) - so
no, VMware can't have it :)

Comment by Paul Gregg [] on January 14, 19:10