Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #60
12 Mar
- BTW, pursuant to the launch of the Delphi/400 products, I’ll be at the COMMON Conference in Nashville at the end of the month. Some of you old timers might remember the venue from Borcon a number of years ago. If by chance you are there, stop by our booth to say hello.
- More Delphi/400 stuff: Nice article in ITJungle about Delphi/400 and Delphi/400 for PHP. In addition, it was nice to see that the top story on SD Times was about us: System i gets some love from CodeGear
- RemObjects has published their 2008 Roadmap.
- The CodeGear folks in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) are busy. Have you checked out http://www.codegear-events.eu, where they are running web seminars something like every fifteen minutes? Okay, it might not be that often, but it sure seems like it. Many of these seminars are in English, and you don’t have to be in the EMEA region to sign up. The times might not be perfect for you if you aren’t in the EMEA region, but the replays are available 24 hours a day.
- If you haven’t noticed what is up over there, you should head over to Hallvard Vassbotn’s blog. He’s re-running all of his Delphi Magazine articles that he had written over the years. Hallvard is a seriously smart guy and an outstanding writer, so don’t miss all the great content that he’s publishing there.
The AS/400 stuff has a definite echo of Inprise feeling to it. Am I correct in understanding that the actual AS/400 specific code itself is actually a third party item making this more of a bundling deal rather than a mislead attempt to "integrate the enterprise" again?
March 13th, 2008 at 9:18 amok, missed the previous post, which basically answers my question as "yes, its a bundle"…
Still, I’m a little shocked to find that there are enough AS/400 systems floating about to justify the bundle still.
I wonder how fast a virtual AS/400 system would be running on a desktop compared to the real thing…
March 13th, 2008 at 2:32 pmhey, what about delphi for pdp (covering pdp 6, 8, 10, 11 and 11m)
March 14th, 2008 at 5:48 amClinton –
It’s an attempt to provide valuable product to our customers that provide profits and revenue to us. I’m pretty sure that is why we are here.
Nick
March 14th, 2008 at 8:20 amNick -> No objections to CG making money, just glad that someone else did the heavy lifting this case. CG definitely can’t afford to distract itself amoungst too many products at this point, let alone one that seems like such a fringe product (not saying there isn’t a market, but I gotta figure the total number of people with AS/400s still around has got to be dimishing on a daily basis, and of those who might want to use Delphi for anything… well, like I say, glad a third party is doing the hard work on this one).
And ya, it does harken back to the days when Borland decided the customers who helped build the company weren’t good enough to keep. I know CG is going in the other direction, it’s just a little freaky to see a ghost from those days pop up again…
March 14th, 2008 at 5:30 pmI will not miss the facts about him. Thanks
March 19th, 2008 at 10:34 pm