Embarcadero Technologies to Acquire CodeGear

[savage]

News just in from CodeGear :


"Embarcadero Technologies, a privately-held company of Thoma Cressey Bravo,
today announced that they signed a definitive asset purchase agreement with
Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL) to purchase its CodeGear division.
The transaction is expected to close in 30 to 60 days. By combining the
market leaders in development tools and database tools, Embarcadero will be
able to address the growing productivity and resource challenges companies
face as a result of different applications and diverse database platforms.
With more than $100 million in annual revenue and over 500 employees
worldwide, the combined companies will operate under the Embarcadero
Technologies name."

The complete press release as well as additional information on the announcement
are available on the CodeGear Developer Network (CDN) and at the following links:

Announcement Landing page - http://www.codegear.com/about/news/embt
Press Release - http://www.codegear.com/article/38124/images/38124/EMBT-CG_Press_Release_050708.pdf
Customer letter from Wayne Williams (CEO Embarcadero Technologies) - http://www.codegear.com/article/38124/images/38124/WWCustomerLetterFinal.pdf
Community letter from David Intersimone (VP Developer Relations & Chief Evangelist) - http://dn.codegear.com/article/38132
FAQ - http://www.codegear.com/article/38124/images/38124/CG_Customer_FAQ_FINAL_5.7.08.pdf

A live, online community chat to discuss the announcement and to answer questions
will be held in the next week. Stay tuned to CDN (http://dn.codegear.com) for the date and
time for the online chat.

[arthurprs]

delphi back in the game?

[Robert Kosek]

Hopefully Delphi will return to being the bee-knees of development.

[czar]

I hope this is a good thing for Delphi. I would love to see kylix/delphi developed so that it also worked with MacOS - that would be great.

[wodzu]

I think Delphi will go more towards the databases...
I hope they not forget everything else.

[Wizard]

Delphi is a wonderful tool, I hope they realize this and invest in its future :wink:

[savage]

The company in question, Embarcadero (http://www.embarcadero.com/), claim to sell


Our cross-platform tools support the market leading databases including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, and MySQL


So maybe they are looking for to make Delphi truly cross-platform and we can expect to see it on Mac OS X and a few other exotic platforms.

[arthurprs]

I think Delphi will go more towards the databases...
I hope they not forget everything else.

[WILL]

This is interesting... :)

[rif]

It would be great if Delphi would be able to make cross-platform applications. However to be realistic CodeGear has limited resources and it is unlikely to change much for the comming years even with Embarcadero backing it.

What CodeGear could do is to extend Delphi windows to cross-compile to Linux and make remote debugging on Linux and create a limited VCL intended for server side application.

Not terrible exciting for games development, but lots of companies have desktop with Windows and Linux servers. So with a limited investment there could be a good payback.

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[JernejL]

It is interesting now that they were bought by actual user of their developer tools.. it would be interesting to see how the language, IDE and compiler will evolve now.

[rif]

It is interesting now that they were bought by actual user of their developer tools.
AFAIK none of the Embarcadero products are made in Delphi. Perhaps some future Database Gear products will be Delphi made. See newsgroup b.p.d.non-technical thread:
http://tinyurl.com/5kt2vh
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