"Second half of 2008" is the best I can do. I can’t be more specific than that.

Nick

Sorry for insisting with this offtopic, but do you have any more concrete time term: is it going be middle or end of 2008? Or maybe you may give a moth: September, November etc? I know that you may always change the release date. But what is the current estimation of the release date? In which month will it be released? We have a lot of customers asking us for Unicode support since a long time. So we are in a middle of the road right now: should we use third-party Unicode controls right now or should be wait until CodeGear releases Delphi 2008. With fist case we will have to do a double work: the fist we will integrate thirdparty Unicode controls, then after release of D2008 we should remove the controls and integrate native VCL controls. I always prefer to use native (original) VCL controls instead of thirdparty controls whenever it’s possible. So I am waiting now for release of D2008.

The next version of Delphi is due in the second half of 2008.

You can read our roadmap at:

http://dn.codegear.com/article/36620

Nick

Whatever happen to Delphi, I will use it as long as possible. But I keep learning new technologies like C# and Java. I think it is not wise just depending on one super tool / language.

As someone who has been a huge supporter since Turbo Pascal v1 days I wish you guys the best of luck and hope that you keep standing up for the interests of long time users who have a considerable investment of time, money, and credibility in your products.

Great!

"fix" QC#21729 and prove it.

Now, you can use the Mozilla Firefox ActiveX control. Read how at http://www.paranoia.clara.net/articles/taming_the_lizard_with_delphi.html

- Cross-compiling (Windows/Mac OS X/Ubuntu, etc)
- Enhanced speed and stability
- 64-bit compiler
- Native XML parsing
- Alternative HTML engine components (Mozilla/Safari)

Good luck guys!

And I don’t like ERStudio, really hate it.

Don’t worry: ISV’s are a critical and important part of our customer base.

Nick

May Borland die an even slower death trying to feed itself on ALM. What a joke! No one is making any money in that space. It has been plagued by empty promises and acquired technology.

I can defintely see the fit with Embarcadero Technologies. Please do not loose focus on ISVs!!! We have no other tool. We do not even exist in Microsoft’s eyes.

I have been defending this platform since Turbo Pascal 1.0. I stuck with this tool because it has never failed me.

Ii think you should move cross-platform development higher up on the roadmap. Having a real develpoment tool for the Mac platform would give you a huge lead over all other development companies.

Good luck to you guys, and please give us more information as soon as you are free to speak about the ugly situation you are leavings.

The disclaimer at the end of the press release is simply legal boilerplate that pretty much any press release from a public company requires - it’s basically saying, "regardless of what we say in this PR, the stock price might still go down".

All those glowing words, but just what IS the King wearing?

And at the end of the statement, something which looks alarmingly like - ‘we made most of this up’ –

Statements made in this release that are not historical facts are “forward-looking statements”
and accordingly involve risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those described in this release.

I have grown to like Delphi and really really hope that isn’t a death knell I hear tolling in the background. Lets hope these guys learn the lessons Boreland seemed to ignore.

As to everyone else asking for forward looking comments. I’m gonna take a wild shot in the dark and say that CodeGear is going to continue avoiding them as long as they are Borland property. After the deal is finalized and everyone starts getting new business cards - then, then we’ll regime change brings us.

Some lines of Shelley come to mind:

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

1) Don’t radically deviate from the existing roadmap. Deliver on the existing promises before moving on. Commodore…
2) Don’t loose the focus on Micros ISV’s
3) Don’t forget the products that made you and sustained you through the evolving Borland ALM beast.
4). Don’t let quality suffer at the expense of shiny new products and features.

In a nutshell, make sure you keep SKU’s relevant to the existing customer base and not simply shoot off after the pot of gold at the end of the Embarcadero enterprise rainbow.

Good luck.

His use of "complementary" is correct in this context.

My personal software projects (newsreader, then email program) will stay in Delphi indefinitely, so I am looking forward to Unicode and eventually a cross-platform Delphi. Maybe Embarcadero is exactly the right overlords to make this finally happen. Some of us have very high hopes, don’t let us down!

For the record, my post did not include the word "synergy".

And as a second point: Embarcadero is most decidedly not an "ALM Company".

Nick

All the best to you and your team.

Its great the behind Embarcadero is a private investment firm, however, I wish this felt less like an echo of the ALM purchases Borland made.

That said, getting away from Borland management is a good thing, and its hard to see a firm that has been as successful as Embarcadero pulling some of the same boneheaded decissions. The private ownership might even make that a lock.

Looking forward to see where this goes. (hopefully the prioritization of Linq like technologies in the win32 world!)