I am finishing up my trip to Germany and then three stops along the US/Canada Delphi, PHP, and InterBase tour. It has been great to meet with many Delphi and PHP developers on this trip. In Paderborn (for the Delphi Tage 2007) there were more than 300 Delphi developers spending their Saturday indoors for technical sessions. In Vancouver and Seattle I have been doing three hour seminars to tell developers what our company and product strategy is and the demonstrate the latest innovations in Delphi 2007 for Windows and Delphi for PHP.
One theme that keeps coming up is concern about CodeGear’s committment to developers, to Delphi, to native and managed code, and how I can assure them all that we are in this for the long run (and how I can arm you with information that will help your managers and customers understand why you use CodeGear products). Jim Douglas and Michael Swindell are on the east coast this week meeting with technical press and industry analysts as part of bringing the CodeGear brand, vision, and strategy to everyone. These efforts and our tours certainly help. But I know we have to do more that travel, market, and deliver.
Here are a few talking points that might help you explain why you love using our products, why your are successful using our products, and how you can deliver more productivity and business benefit using our products.
- CodeGear is the world’s largest independent developer tools provider
- Our revenues last year were $75M
- We are making a substantial investment in R&D
- We are 100% dedicated to the developer community
- Our strategy is focused on the optimization of programming, individual and team processes
- We bring a breadth of technical innovation across multiple languages and platforms
- CodeGear has the largest independent developer community
- Our products are used in 97% of the global 2000 companies.
- We have more than 200 employees worldwide, operating in 29 countries.
- Our products are supported by a large, worldwide ecosystem of partners, trainers, consultants, authors, and luminaries
Our strategy is to
- Continue to deliver innovation for established, pervasive languages
- Provide innovative solutions for new languages and emerging applications
- Help developers leverage open source to increase productivity and create success
- Bring developers together in new ways to enable more productive communication and collaboration
Just in the past five months, CodeGear:
- Shipped a new JBuilder 2007 with innovative features built on top of the Eclipse framework.
- Brought RAD and Visual development to PHP with our new Delphi for PHP product.
- Delivered Windows Vista support, Web 2.0 AJAX, and higher levels of quality and performance for native code development with Delphi 2007 for Win32.
- Engaged in partnerships, collaboration, and contributions for many open source projects including –Eclipse Mylar, DLTK, MySQL, Indy, VCL for PHP, Fastcode, and the 20+ open-source projects that are leveraged in JBuilder 2007.
- Trained and visited with our worldwide developer community with our global CodeRage virtual developers conference and more than 60 seminars.
- Created an autonomous organization with its own executive management, development, marketing, sales, and operations teams.
Along the way I have asked several developers to send me email messages with questions and issues that I can work on to help remove the FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) so that we can all focus on the most important things, besides family and friends, in our professional careers - developing, learning, and having fun.
If you need more ammunition for your bosses, industry friends, fellow developers, and customers let me know. Send an email to davidi@codegear.com.
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David,
One of the things I here often from management types is that there aren’t enough developers that know the Delphi family of tools. These decision makers tend to herd together. They choose .Net using Microsoft tools and Java rather than going with the productive choice. They see the other choices as the choices they "can’t get fired for". Is there any way to change this?
Tom
> that there aren’t enough developers that know the Delphi family of tools.
That depends on where you look. Where are you looking? On job boards, in your local town?
> choices they "can’t get fired for"
hmm - not sure what to say here - how to change something that vague. Shouldn’t the trade off be competitive advantage, successful projects, higher productivity, etc?
After all these years of being loyal Delphi fans, it looks like we’re going to transition to VS2005 if only because we must have Compact Framework for our Public Safety applications. We’re not completely abandoning Delphi, but .Net 2.0 and Compact Framework are starting to be real requirements here.
I hope that CodeGear accelerates release of BDS 2007 with these items.
Notice this whole entry avoids the word "C++", as in C++ Builder. Pains me to admit, but I’m relieved I moved to VS.
Is it so difficult to tell us any information about BDS 2007 ?
Is it so difficult to tell us any information about BDS 2007 ?
David,
I see you mentioning MySQL all the time, that’s great, but you guys are pretty much ignoring PostgreSQL which is just so much better and has a truly open source license and Millions of win32 users since the 8.0 version was released over 2 years ago, not to mention the vast numbers of Unix/Linux users out there.
David,
I see you mentioning MySQL all the time, that’s great, but you guys are pretty much ignoring PostgreSQL which is just so much better and has a truly open source license and Millions of win32 users since the 8.0 version was released over 2 years ago, not to mention the vast numbers of Unix/Linux users out there.
Jeffrey Zh,
Apparently it is that difficult to tell any Information about ‘BDS 2007′. In fact will there be a ‘BDS 2007′ in the way users perceive ?
There is a C++ Builder field trial that was announced on Alan Bauer’s blog on 20th April but seemly not widely publicised. Make of that what you will.
>Apparently it is that difficult to tell any Information about ‘BDS 2007′. In fact will there be a ‘BDS 2007′ in the way users perceive ?
Not difficult to talk about general directions for technologies, languages, and platforms. More difficult to talk about unannounced future products.
>There is a C++ Builder field trial that was announced on Alan Bauer’s blog on 20th April but seemly not widely publicised. Make of that what you will.
Field trials and previews are not product announcments.
For languages we are committed to Delphi, C++, C#, Java, PHP, SQL, XML, HTML, JavaScript, assembler, and Ruby so far.
> I see you mentioning MySQL all the time, that’s great, but you guys are pretty much ignoring PostgreSQL which is just so much better and has a truly open source license and Millions of win32 users since the 8.0 version was released over 2 years ago, not to mention the vast numbers of Unix/Linux users out there.
You can use PostgreSQL via several different driver vendors.
> Notice this whole entry avoids the word "C++", as in C++ Builder. Pains me to admit, but I’m relieved I moved to VS.
One has to wonder why, if you’ve moved to VS, you are posting on a CodeGear blog?
We are definitely committed to C++ and C++Builder. Stay tuned.
Thanks for your answers.But,when will the BDS2007 be released ? at June?
> Thanks for your answers.But,when will the BDS2007 be released ? at June?
We cannot make public statements about unannounced products. If you want to be a field tester of future products, send me an email and I will forward your request. This is one way to be a part of future developments. The other way is to ask for a non-disclosure (NDA) briefing from CodeGear and we can give our customers a better look (privately) at where we are going - beyond the general directions that I’ve stated.
What version of our products are you using - BDS 2006? Do you need/want all of the languages or just some?
General directions for the future include:
Continued innovation for software developers
Continued expansion of the IDE / RAD envelope
Continued support for Native and Managed code
Future directions in languages and technologies:
C++, C#, Delphi, Java, PHP, Ruby, SQL, XML
32-bit, 64-bit native code
.NET 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.5 / …
Concurrent programming
Thanks very much!I’m very glad to know that CodeGear still surport C# and Managed code.My small company has only few developers.We are using VS c++.Last year we decided to make a change.So we wanted to use ECO and C#.After we had tried the trial version of C#Builder2006,we decided to wait for Net.2.0 and other improvments .Now I want to be a field tester of C#Builder2007.I’ll send a email to you soon.Thanks.
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