I just got back from the BDS London conference and thought I would share the highlights...

* NewDevCo are not looking to be bought, but are looking for venture capitalists to invest in the new company. So it is essentially a spinoff from Borland not a selloff and they don't want to be bought by another company. They want to become their own company that is developer focused.

* Talks with investors start next week and it is expected that the new company will be operational in the Summer.

* Dev Tools that will move to NewDevCo are...
Delphi, C++, C#, JBuilder and "Peleton", Interbase, JDataStore, Developer Network. Everything else ALM related will stay with Borland.

* They claimed that there are currently 12M developers worldwide and that by 2009 there will be 17M and that they will be able to get a share of that market.

Road Map
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2007 - Highlander
Will contain VCL for .NET 2.0, VCL for Compact Framework, 64 Bit .NET ( which is free really ) and initiall Vist support

2007->2008 - Delphi for Vista
Will contain...
VCL for Windows Presentation Foundation ( Avalon )
VCL for Windows Communication Foundation ( Indigo )

2008 - Win64 Native code compiler and VCL for Win64

They also demonstrated some very cool features in Delphi 2006 via code templates and also using model driven coding, as well as creating a codeless Web driven DB application using ECO III.

As I mentioned earlier I was more concerned with what was happening with the NewDevCo and also the technology roadmap. So now it's just a waiting game to see what will happen in the summer time.