The Lair of the Pythia

Everyone else seems to have had their say on the announcement of the sale of CodeGear to Embarcadero Technologies, so I guess I might as well chip in too. By far the most obvious thing about the announcement is that as from now CodeGear and its products will be owned by a company that thought it worthwhile to spend a lot of money on them, not by a company that is get to get rid of them. That has to be a good thing. Also I know where Embarcadero are headquartered, so if they don’t do what I want I can always saunter along to their building and complain. (And then go shopping in the Ferry Building afterwards to cheer myself up.)

On the other hand, as an independent developer, I confess to being somewhat nervous about the fact that the tools I use are now owned by a company that doesn’t have much of a track record of supplying products to people like me, and whose synergies with CodeGear pretty clearly lie in areas that don’t impact me. Whether this will prove a problem or not, time alone will tell, but at least something is finally happening.