Hello from Scotts Valley. I can’t believe that I am saying this. It seems like forever since I’ve been back home. I’ve sometimes felt like a “Where’s Waldo” character the past two months. Where haven’t I been? What customers haven’t I visited? It’s been great to be out there among our loyal community of developers. I’ve visited small developers, large programmers, and extra large companies. I’ve been taken to lunch by the great Delphi programmers at UniDevco (what an amazing name coincidence) in Vancouver Canada, spent a Saturday in Christiania in Copenhagen Denmark with an old Borland friend, did customer briefings by subway of New York, raced into Kiev for my first ever visit with our great community members, partied in Amsterdam with the best programmers in the Benelux, stayed up late in Madrid, hung out with a blind Delphi programmer in Germany (wish I was still there for the World Cup), and did video conferences in other places where I couldn’t physically be (I need a Star Trek transporter beam).
On my tour I’ve been giving everyone an update on the progress in creating our new independently private company (we’re still looking for a great name). The feedback has been excellent. Once everyone hears the real story and plans they forget most of the FUD they are hearing from our competitors. Just hearing that Delphi, C++Builder, JBuilder, InterBase, JDataStore are alive and well has ensured our customers that their investments in our products are secure. We are getting close to the finish line with the investors. The interested investors are all capital, equity investors (no software or hardware companies to be found).
Back home in Scotts Valley, we are adding to our team, hiring new and returning engineers. Summer weather has finally arrived in our part of California. Product updates and hot fixes are being worked on. The product roadmap is updated on BDN. The next generation of products are on their way to completion. There’s even a little family time for graduations and preparations for college.
Stay tuned to the Developer Network for additional news and for something really special this summer. It’s cool, you’ll want it. Meanwhile, we’re here working for you. If you need a “DevCo” briefing or update, if you have a success story to tell me, or if you have a great name or idea just let me know.
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Hey Waldo:
No one is particularly impressed with your traveling blog. Instead show us what you can do or have done in the last 20 years to make Borland or DevCo a great company. Shifting with the direction of the wind is not going to turn heads?
JC
John - thanks for your comment. There probably isn’t enough space on my blog to go through all that I have done for Borland and developers in 21 years here. I’ll just say that we are continuing to drive innovation in development at Borland and at Devco. I am also spending a lot of my time with customers and inside the leadership team to ensure we have a great company once we are separated from Borland.
Thanks for the update David. Good hearing about your travels and the reception you are getting.
Hola David,
I think that having that kind of contact and spending some quality time with Delphi developers around the world increases that "Family" feeling that exists on the Delphi community. It is important for all of us to know that you guys are hearing and are interested in improve our productivity.
We believe in the hard work of the entire team at "DevCo", enjoy the summer and keep bringing more good news.
Gracias!.
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