David I offered some interesting insights while at the Delphi Day event in Italy two weeks ago, but I've been so busy that I had to time to collect my notes (taken because I was partially translating his keynote) and post them here. Time permitting, I'll post also some notes (and samples) of my own events. Of course, this transcript is not verbatim, and I might not remember correctly, I took some of my notes in Italian (so I'm re-translating), and I feel DavidI is so busy that I didn't send him these notes before publishing them. So this is not what DavidI said but what I remember of what he said... Here it goes:
The announcement of the sale to Embarcadero marks the end of two years of uncertainty. During this time, we tried to figure out which could have been the best strategy for our customers and our products. The only company (among other contacts I'm not allowed to unveil) that made sense for us was Embarcadero. The day of the announcement in CodeGear we all had big smiles.
We are all developers, the CEO of Embarcadero is a developer who used Delphi in his career. He understands our products more than any other past CEO since Philippe days.
There is a great fit between the two companies and complementary products. Delphi developers often use databases (not all, will be your choice). Deal will complete at end of June. We are in the process of getting new business cards, new tax forms... all the usual employee stuff. Meanwhile, nothing is stopping on Delphi (and other products) development.
We can start envisioning the suture, with scenarios like: "debug your Delphi applications and step into a stored procedure running on the database server", or "refactor your database tables and the corresponding Delphi code (including the static TFields and the user itnerface)", and even "profile your code and database at once".
That's all of my notes... I spend a lot more time with David I talking about the present and the future, but some of the conversations erred on the side of NDA information, so I won't venture into any to avoid crossing a thin line. PS. I also got congratulations from his last week for the Italian victory over France, too bad the Spanish team was so good at penalties...