February 23, 2007
CodeGear people: Nick, Ben, and even Philippe
Kudos to Nick
Along with the Delphi 2007 announcement the other day, CodeGear stated that the Delphi 2007 Upgrade would only be available to former "non-Turbo" owners. A lot of complaints were posted. Within "hours" Nick Hodges was able to retract CodeGear position and announce the new Upgrade-for-All policy. Kudos to Nick for acting so quickly. In many years working with Borland/CodeGear products I've never witnessed similar responsiveness.
Meanwhile, Nick is hard at work differentiating the Turbo product line from the Professional products. Future Turbos will probably have a lower feature set, but if this comes at a very low price, that's reasonable. Meanwhile, there is a good news for Europeans. The USD/Euro rate exchange for new products is a little more in line with the real one (about 1:1.15, whereas the real rate exchange is 1:1.30). So differently from the past prices in Euros for Delphi 2007 are lower than the US Dollar prices.
Ben is Blogging
As many have announced, CodeGear CEO Ben Smith is now blogging. I think I like the attitude. I had a feeling his first post would remain alone... as happened with a few other Borland Bloggers. But a second post came right away (after 2 days), so I really hope this will become a new interesting source, not really of information, but of feelings and sensations of what's up with the company. And maybe we'll have the address of a nice restaurant...
Philippe New Ventures
I happened to notice that Philippe Kahn, Borland's founder, is up with a new venture. His blog is not so up to date, though. He claims to have invented the camera-phone. Or at least the idea... worth a look for the Borland aficionados.
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CodeGear people: Nick, Ben, and even Philippe
Werther, did you have a camera-phone back in 1997? I doubt! While the history of the pictures of the baby might have been a little made-up, who knows, even in 2000 when they sold technology to Motorola it was very new.Comment by Marco Cantù [http://www.marcocantu.com] on February 23, 15:04
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Hey, I have an idea: A car that can fly. Does this mean that I can claim to have invented the flying car, when one day someone actually makes one?Comment by Sceptic [] on February 23, 16:22
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Don't they have a term for that? They do it in politics too. Sort of sample the arena. Throw out a proposal and get a feel from the people/community. If it doesn't go over well, say we're just *thinking out loud* or just retract it.Comment by John Smith [] on February 23, 18:03
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Marco Here is one of our favorites on the URL link and the first place I took the European guest working with us on PHP.Comment by BTS [http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/In.Vino.Veritas.831-461-0851] on February 24, 01:22
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