July 2, 2008
Some more links (and news) about the acquisition of CodeGear (and Delphi) by Embarcadero.
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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marcocantu @ 12:58AM | 5 Comments
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Delphi Embarcadero, Take 2
Now where can I get ME one of those shirts? They look
great!
Myles
Comment by Tech Solutions
[http://www.techsolusa.com]
on July 2, 16:19
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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