Embarcadero and CodeGear
By now, many of you have probably seen the announcement about Embarcadero and CodeGear. I’ve received some messages from people outside CodeGear asking me what I think, so I’ll answer here.
There were many potential outcomes from this "spin-off" effort. I think CodeGear and Embarcadero Technologies fit very well together. Honestly, this outcome is just about the best scenario I could expect. Basically, I didn’t dare to be this optimistic!
The complementary combination of our products and our companies is extensive, exciting, and promising. The two companies have a very large area of interest and expertise overlap, without having conflicting product offerings. The combination of the two product lines will lead to extremely productive development solutions for both sets of customers.
Others have written long posts about this already, so I’m not going to belabor the same points.
I just wanted to provide a public answer to the questions I was getting from people, and reiterate that I think this is a great move and a great day for CodeGear’s customers and its employees.
P.S. As you can imagine, I’m going to be really busy working out the details of integrating our various Internet Services with Embarcadero’s, so I hope you’ll understand if I don’t respond to blog comments immediately.
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Posted by John Kaster on May 7th, 2008 under CodeGear products |
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May 7th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
It does indeed seem a good fit, though I had always thought Macromedia would be the best fit.
May 8th, 2008 at 8:29 am
i was more thinging about a company like apple (or google) to build an application IDE (Delphi) with true cross plateform support … anyway embarcadero look good !
May 8th, 2008 at 9:10 am
I for one am overly concerned. I’m waiting with an anxious stomach. I am praying this is a good thing. I sooo do not wanna go back to c++
May 8th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Danielle, all I can suggest is you wait and see. Everyone here is pretty optimistic.
May 8th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
[...] John Kaster, too. [...]
May 9th, 2008 at 4:33 am
Sounds great, now port Delphi to Mac and if it’s not too expensive me and thousands of others will buy it.:-)!!!
May 13th, 2008 at 6:32 am
It is a sobering that althought Delphi was bought for
$30 million, the total value of the Delphi Faithfulls investment in source code,from the Fortune 500’s down to the one man band in a basement amounts to billions of dollars.
For many of us to go forward Delphi has to succeed and
go from strength to strength. We will never use anything else.
David parnaby
May 14th, 2008 at 7:34 am
I hope that Delphi will not be only database oriented
July 1st, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Isaac, David … Delphi’s future is looking even better now that we’re part of Embarcadero. Embarcadero is a company completely focused on software tools for developers and database professionals.