Embarcadero
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.
I just can’t understand how could Borland drop something this good and valuable as Delphi… It’s like Microsoft would sell Visual Studio. Man i love Delphi, it has both good and bad sides, but millions of developers loved it since the beginning, and now its getting tossed like an unwanted baby from one company to another.
Delphi 7 FTW
June 16th, 2008 at 6:58 pm