July 2, 2008
Delphi Embarcadero, Take 2
I see a lot of thrill in the "first day of new owner" posts by David I and Allen Bauer. They had a "welcome party" and at the party they seemed to have fun (by looking at the pictures...). By the way, nice teeshirt (this is head of product management Greg Jorgensen wearing it, in a picture taken by Anders Ohlsson):
I'm personally very happy with the news (don't know why one commenters at my blog saw me doubtful yesterday). My company sold quite a few Delphi licenses yesterday (I hope this money goes into Embarcadero pockets!). I've seen many references to the deal in the IT press. I also read an interesting article/interview with CodeGear product manager Micheal Swindell at TechRepublic: "CodeGear: Working hard to Rejunevate its Legacy". The article has a very positive mood":
I bet the name Borland conjures up fond memories for nearly every programmer who has more than 10 years of experience.
But amongst much well-known information, the article has a small interesting bit that sounds totally new to me:
CodeGear’s .NET products are expanding in new directions, which include RIA development and targeting other platforms (through systems such as Mono).
Interesting... he probably knows a few things we don't know!
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Delphi Embarcadero, Take 2
You mention the name borland evoking fond memories, I have to agree. I started with Turbo C++ 1.0 and pascal 5.0 and have been with them ever since. But I have to say the name now evokes stong anger at the management at borland for abandoning the products that made them. I personally think they should have taken the hike and found a new name. It's like ford motor company using their brand name to make a new Ford Macaroni & Cheese.Comment by Joe H on July 2, 16:29
Delphi Embarcadero, Take 2
Greg Jorgensen is the head of corporate marketing, not product management. Michael Swindell is now the head of Embarcadero product management. Allen.Comment by Allen Bauer [http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer] on July 2, 20:52
Delphi Embarcadero, Take 2
re RIA & Mono, I should probably let the Delphi team address .NET directly and specifically as soon as they are ready, but in a general sense over the last year we've taken a "time out", stepped back and talked to many customers about their future .NET development plans, compatibility, frameworks, platforms, priorities, etc. In the beginning with .NET we put most of our energy into compatibility and replicating the Delphi language and VCL intact in a first class way for CLR, with the goal to make moving to .NET seamless for those applications that would be well suited on .NET - this was balanced against keeping up with the latest frameworks and flavors from MS, latest CLS and CLR feature support etc - which often lost out to compatiblity. Years have passed, and something that has been clear for some time is that most of the migration that was destined to happen, has passed. Today things like supporting more of the .NET framework flavors (Silverlight, WPF, etc) and keeping up with the latest language and framework releases is of much higher importance. So we have been working on a more aggressive .NET approach that focuses less on being a .NET clone of the native Delphi implementation and more of an open approach that will make more frameworks, platforms, and features available and in a more timely manner. At the same time we have been significantly increasing our efforts and focus on native compiled Delphi and C++, and this adjustment to the strategy should pay off for both native developers and .NET developers. So in a nutshell expect less focus on compatibility between native and .NET and more support for performance and rich UI oriented packaged/desktop/workstation features (ie GUI, DB and CPU) in the native tools, and more support for other .NET frameworks beyond just Winforms and ASP.NET ie WPF, Silverlight, Open source and others - in the .NET tools. As we finalize plans expect to see a .NET roadmap coming from the Delphi team in the near future.Comment by Michael Swindell [http://www.embarcadero.com] on July 3, 05:04
Delphi Embarcadero, Take 2
<unscientific survey> I can only see myself using a Delphi for .Net if it brings added value over and above C# (or similar) may offer. </unscientific survey> Precisely what that added value might be I don't really know, I have to admit... Focus on .Net or Win32? I'm glad it's not me that has to decide.Comment by delfi phan on July 8, 17:28
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Delphi Embarcadero, Take 2
Comment by Tech Solutions [http://www.techsolusa.com] on July 2, 16:19