Nick Hodges

• Well, it’s a new year.  Cool. Lots of stuff will be happening this year around CodeGear. 
• One of the main things that is going to happen right off the bat in this new year is the release of our new Delphi/BDS roadmap.  It’s been a lot of work.  It will look different that what you’ve seen in the past.  It will be more responsive to what you all are asking for.  It should be made public later this month.   I’ve got it open in MS Word right now, and I’m working furiously to make sure it has everything in it.  It will have to go through a pretty thorough approval process first, but it’s my overwhelmingly main focus right now, so it shouldn’t be too long.
• Just so we are clear, I’m the Delphi Product Manager.  I do Delphi, and generally, when I talk, that is what I am talking to. I focus on that one product, and don’t speak for other products like, say, JBuilder or Interbase. However, some of the other, more senior leadership in the company are obviously more concerned with the company as a whole.  So when they talk, they generally address company-wide issues. So, for instance, if a bigwig starts talking about us getting into dynamic languages like Ruby, PHP, etc., he or she is not talking necessarily about any one particular product.  We on the Delphi/BDS side of things are indeed looking at new languages and the like.  But so are the JBuilder guys.  They might do one thing on the Eclipse side, and we might do another on the Windows side.  And that is not so say that we will only be doing things for deployment to Windows.  For example, a product may have a Windows-based IDE, but it need not be limited to deploying the resulting application to Windows.  So, just remember — I pretty much speak for Delphi and I, by definition, can’t exclude anyone outside of Delphi.
• Pursuant to that, to say that we are looking at other languages doesn’t mean that we are "concentrating" on that at the expense of Delphi or C++Builder.  If I say that I’m concentrated very strongly on Delphi doesn’t mean that CodeGear is spending all of its time on Delphi and nothing else.  If someone says we are looking at dynamic languages, it doesn’t mean that we are "concentrating" on that and nothing else.  I confess it gets a little frustrating when we say that we are looking at one thing and people pop up assuming that we are ignoring something else.  We are capable of working on more than one thing at a time, you know. 

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