May
07
2008
Sold! Finally after more than two years ….
Posted by Olaf Monien in Delphi, Development, tags: CodeGear, EmbarcaderoCodeGear has finally been sold after Borland’s initial “Plan to Divest” announcement back in February 2006.
On February 8th, 2006 Borland announced its “Plan to Divest IDE Product Lines“. From then on a lot of changes, discussions and more announcements happened.
DevCo was born and morphed to CodeGear later on. But they kept being a “department of Borland”
Today a press release is announcing that Embarcadero signed an agreement to buy CodeGear. I’m not going to repeat all the details which can be read on the web sites of Embarcadero, CodeGear and of a couple of bloggers such as Marco Cantu. I just want to share my personal first feelings:
- Emarcadero is a large DataBase tools company, which I didn’t know about yet. They seem to have quite some cool tools for SQL development, analyzing and debugging. Also some tools for DataBase design. CodeGear has strong development tools with strong DB capabilities. They also have InterBase and BlackFish, where the latter one is suffering from non-existent administration tools – sounds good imho.
- Embacadero is a private company, and so will be CodeGear – this will be a big relief, because of these nasty rules for public company (as Borland is) won’t apply anymore. Back to public product evolvement!
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