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Party!
Today we had a party celebrating the closing of the deal!
A lot of Embarcadero folks, including CEO Wayne Williams came down to celebrate with us CodeGearians.
Here’s a shot of a small portion of the party:
Chris Bensen (photo geek extraordinaire) told me to get a picture of feet, so here you go:
Greg Jorgensen is chatting with David I (out of focus):
Nice shirt, Greg! (everybody got one)
I just couldn’t resist shooting Michael Swindell off of Mark Howe’s shades:
More artistic and crazy pics can be found if you click on any of these pics and play around!
Enjoy!
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posted @ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:04:16 +0000 by Anders Ohlsson
Making the globe a bit more personal
During the process of updating our web sites to reflect that we are now part of Embarcadero, we also found time to add a little more personalization to the web site. When you select one of our supported locations, the little globe next to the location changes to approximate your location.
I logged out of our web sites so my personal profile information would not affect our default location presentation. Here’s the default "global" globe when you’re not logged in:
After I change my location to "Australia" I see:
After I change my location to "France" I see:
After I change to "Greater China" I see:
(Note that the language also changes to the "default" language for each location, but that’s the way our location support has always worked.)
Our other supported locations also have globes rendered to display something closer to the location selected.
It’s a trivial tweak, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the importance of our customers in every location on the globe.
P.S. The nice new website design was done by Mark Hannah, and rapidly implemented by Jonathan Benedicto.
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posted @ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:23:02 +0000 by John Kaster
My first day as an Embarcaderian…
I woke up this morning at 5am. Turned on my computer and read the press release announcing that Embarcadero closed the acquisition of CodeGear from Borland Software. Both the Embarcadero and CodeGear web sites have a flash animation highlighting the combination of DatabaseGear and CodeGear focused on tools that let architects, designers, developers, and administrators "design it, build it, and run it".
What’s different today? This morning it was foggy and drizzly at my house south of Santa Cruz. There was no traffic on Highway 1 North on the way to work. Now the sun is coming out in Scotts Valley. We are now part of a 500 person, $100 million company focused on application developers and database professionals. We now have more people and resources to innovate and help you succeed than we had yesterday. We have joined together to focus on innovation in our existing products and the creation of new solutions.
Our mission is all about building software tools. It is about providing tools that are independent (and supportive) of a platform or stack vendor’s offerings. We’re about building software tools for students, hobbyists, developers, professionals, consultants, independents, and small/medium/large/extra-large businesses.
The rate of growth and volume of information and data is incredible. Information and software drives the modern economy. Applications are needed to process and present the information. People create the applications. Twenty five years ago, at the time of Turbo Pascal 1.0, there were two million developers in the world. Today, the number of developers is growing at approximately two million per year.
Some people would tell you that tools don’t matter. That open source or the platform and stack vendors will solve every problem and satisfy every pain point. Today, software is no more reliable, no more predictable than it was before. We need to build better applications, faster, and with higher reliability. Our economy needs every designer, architect, developer, and administrator to be performing at the top of their game.
What are we focused on? Building the best tools to let you leverage the skills you are developing no matter what operating system, database, platform, stack, hardware, and architecture you are using today so that you can use those skills on the infrastructures you will be using tomorrow.
We are the “un-lock-in”. For those of you that are dependent on platforms, databases – our tools can work with you and for you. For those who have heterogeneous infrastructures or for those individuals, consultants, ISVs/Micro ISVs, SI/VARs, and OEMs who need to support multiple platforms - our tools can work with you and for you. For those developers who don’t use databases - our tools can work with you and for you.
Information Engineering and Software Engineering have now collided at Embarcadero Technologies, the largest independent provider that empowers application developers and database professionals with tools to design, build, and run software applications in the environment they choose.
How can we innovate to help you succeed? Do any of the following pain points resonate with you?
- My professionals have no independence because we are tied to a single stack (platform).
- Our team is wasting tons of time and resources with low-quality tools.
- I am an individual developer who has to build it all while competing with larger teams.
- Our team is very distributed, disjointed, and disconnected.
- My small group still has to build complex apps.
- Information Management and Software Development are in different silos at our company.
- Software tools are hard to access and expensive for my team.
- We are an ISV that needs to build quality, performant, global-ready packaged software.
- We build scientific and industrial applications pushing the envelope of non-database applications.
- We use Eclipse but waste time with different plug-ins, multiple editions, and lack best-in-class tooling for real development work.
What are your pain points? 500+ Embarcaderians are ready to help!
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posted @ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:45:35 +0000 by David Intersimone
Brand New Day…
Well, my access card worked. I guess I still have a job :-).
I just finished listening to a company (Embarcadero not Borland) wide conference call announcing to the whole company the closure of the Embarcadero+CodeGear deal. Wayne Williams, our new boss, made some very encouraging statements. Most notably was that just like ER/Studio, RapidSQL, and DBArtisan, Delphi/C++Builder are core Embarcadero product offerings. This means that these products are key to the business. Yes, there are many other products being sold, incubated and introduced, but it is the aforementioned products that form the pillars on which the company is based. Without them, many of the other products would not be possible. Like the foundation of a home, you just don’t take a metaphoric jackhammer to them and expect the structure (the company) to remain sound.
Another encouraging (or maybe scary, depending upon your perspective) point was that we are the last independent tools vendor with the breadth of offerings we have out there. This means no vendor or stack lock-in. We have tools for nearly every database and OS platform out there. We are also one the of the very few software companies that offer very strong non-Open Source tools right along side tools built either on or for Open Source stacks. JBuilder and 3rdRail are built on top of the very popular Eclipse framework. Delphi for PHP and 3rdRail are built for the very popular and widely used Open Source PHP and Ruby/Rails environments, respectively.
How things will change or even stay the same is still being planned and scoped. A lot of work had been done between the announcement of this deal and its close, but now is where most of the work can actually take place. Now that we’re no longer joined to Borland, we can now chart a new course under a new captain. I wish all the best for Borland as I’ve seen many happy and exciting days while there.
An interesting anomaly is that many of the CodeGear folks have had their service bridged, which means that some of us have, on paper, now worked for Embarcadero longer then they’ve existed :-). This is now day 6022 for me.
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posted @ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:21:38 +0000 by Allen Bauer
What’s in a name?
For many years I’ve been fortunate to be part of an iconic software company and team of brilliant individuals that have built some of the most recognizable tools in the history of software development. You can go virtually anywhere in the world and meet someone who uses or has used Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++, Delphi, C++Builder, InterBase or JBuilder. And if they don’t, they probably know someone who does. Our customers are the most knowledgeable, persistent, vocal, creative, loyal, and objective in the software development world. Our customers are the most valuable part of our organization and our success. Over the years, one of the most exciting, interesting and gratifying parts of my job has been meeting customers and learning hands-on about the software solutions they build with our products. Learning and seeing how Delphi powers massively distributed medical billing systems and at the same time is running large scale manufacturing and robotics applications. How JBuilder is used in NASA’s Mars Rover program to explore new worlds and back here on Earth right in our own Monterey Bay at MBARI for exploring our undersea universe, and yet at the same time is used in the world’s largest banks and financial institutions. Learning how C++Builder is powering real-time Wall Street trading floor systems, suburban power-grid distribution stations, and ground connected flight planning systems in the cockpits of our domestic chartered airlines. CodeGear developer tools are at the heart of both global industry and information and it has been an absolute pleasure to meet, know and work with our customers during this first incredible chapter.
Today we are beginning the next chapter that joins CodeGear’s developer tool products and teams with Embarcadero Technologies. It is a great combination on so many levels, but on the simplest level it’s about tools. Embarcadero is a company that is successful because it’s a high performance team that “get’s it” and understands the value of how ultra-productive tools benefit customers and listens carefully to the problems customers face. Everyday problems like getting complex database design, development, and management tasks done quickly with any customer relevant database platform.
It’s interesting to think about just a few of our neighboring customers, roles, and products. For example, today Embarcadero creates visual tools to help data and application architects model and understand complex logical and physical databases, sound familiar? CodeGear creates award winning visual modeling tools to help architects and developers visually model and understand applications. Embarcadero creates the most popular SQL IDE in the world for writing and debugging SQL and stored procedures. Used by more than 3 million developers globally, CodeGear creates some of the most popular app dev IDEs in the world for writing and debugging software applications for a variety of popular platforms. Embarcadero is in beta today with a new database profiling and optimization toolset that is simply amazing to see in action. CodeGear develops one of the most popular Java profilers and optimization tools in the Java market.
Before today Embarcadero and CodeGear separately created ultra-high productivity tools for designing, building, and running databases and applications. Starting today Embarcadero Technologies is the company building tools to help application and database developers (sometimes on the same team, sometimes the same person, occasionally mutually exclusive) get difficult tasks done quickly, with quality, and for a wide variety of database and application platforms.
A few things we care a lot about
- Flexibility. Database support must be heterogeneous and seamless
- Open Source. Our customers must achieve more value (speed, quality, productivity) from Open Source than their competitors are getting
- Speed. If it’s slow it’s broken.
- Teams. Tools should enable team members to work together more efficiently and seamlessly with the tools they own. Tools that force processes, stacks, and platforms aren’t designed with real people in mind. Sell them to someone else’s boss.
- Price. Tools should be widely available and fairly priced offering high value to every skill level and business size.
- Quality. Tools should help our customers deliver higher quality than their competitors.
- Stacks. Customers should be able to dictate software stacks based on their needs. Tools that dictate or steer to one vendors stack doesn’t have the customer’s interest at heart.
- Productivity. Customers need to be able to out-produce and outpace their competitors while still delivering higher quality.
- Community. Embarcadero is community of millions that includes employees, customers, partners, resellers, component and add-on vendors, students, journalists, and more
An Embarcadero is typically a waterfront wharf or pier, no doubt a launching point for many great voyages. Here’s to ours.
Michael
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posted @ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:42:59 +0000 by Michael Swindell
386,899,200 seconds
Goodbye Borland, and thanks for all the fish! It’s been a great ride, and tomorrow starts another great ride with Embarcadero Technologies!
386 million what? Oh, David and Allen was mentioning days, so I just wanted a bigger number, since my number of years is less… 
The below picture has nothing to do with anything, really. It’s last night’s smoggy sundown in Santa Cruz, and I figured I’d put it in here.
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posted @ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:01:03 +0000 by Anders Ohlsson
The Last Day.
Today is my last official day as a Borland/CodeGear employee. After today, I will have been a Borland/CodeGear employee for 6021 days, or 16 years, 5 months, and 25 days. What is interesting about this is that tomorrow, I will continue to drive to the same building, ride the same elevator, and unlock the same office door. The only difference will be that I will be employed by Embarcadero. It has certainly been an interesting ride in my many years at Borland/CodeGear.
For some perspective, I started when the Borland stock was around $80 a share (ouch). The new Borland Campus wasn’t completed. Borland occupied a reasonably large number of buildings throughout Scotts Valley. If Borland didn’t occupy some or all of a building, chances are Seagate did. To move between the various buildings, there was a continuously running shuttle bus service for Borland employees. I also remember the clout that Borland had locally. When we (my family and myself) first arrived and were looking for someplace to rent, when asked where I worked and I said Borland, suddenly we were at the top of the list without any kind of other checks. It was pretty nice.
After today, there will be no official presence of Borland in Scotts Valley. The only thing linked to Borland will be name on the lease they maintain on part of this building that was once the Borland Corporate HQ and campus. Embarcadero will sub-lease the space we currently occupy from Borland.
Even though there have been many things Borland has done over the years that I firmly disagreed with, they’ve also done some pretty good stuff too. I’ve learned so much more than I ever could have imagined about software, the software industry, developer tools, frameworks, and compilers. I’ve also had the pleasure of knowing and meeting many folks in the industry from all around the world.
Tomorrow will start a new chapter with new challenges and opportunities. I’m sure it will take some time until the dust settles, the cultures merge, and things settle down to the right groove. Don’t expect any earth-shattering announcements or radical changes immediately out of the gate. This is a new experience for nearly all involved, so some period of acclimation is bound to take place.
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posted @ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:00:56 +0000 by Allen Bauer
Today is my last day as a Borlander…
I got up this morning to get ready to drive in to Scotts Valley just as I have for the past twenty-three years and 13 days. As I was driving in, I was thinking about product videos I need to create, trips I have to plan, webinars that I need to schedule, and articles I need to write. As I was making the transition from Highway 1 to Highway 17, it donned on me that this will be my last day as a Borlander. Tomorrow, I will make the same drive up to Scotts Valley as an Embarcadero Technologies employee!
I knew today was coming back on February 6, 2006 when Borland announced that they would sell off the developer business. The whole process became real with the Embarcadero definitive agreement announcement on May 7, 2008. In the past few weeks, while continuing to help drive revenue and awareness, many of us have also been filling out Embarcadero forms for insurance coverage, 401-k retirement fund planning, and other employment forms. Yet, it was surreal to be in the car this morning thinking about technology, products, and work items without thinking about the transition.
For 23 years I have focused on developers, tools, and software engineering. Looking forward, I will continue to focus on developers, tools, and software engineering. The combination of Embarcadero Technologies’ DatabaseGear and CodeGear products will give individuals, consultants, ISVs, SI/VARs, OEMs, small teams, and large teams unique capabilities, from an independent software company, across the database and programming spectrum.
We are focused on moving the state of the art in software engineering forward and continuing to add to tooling that embodies the best practices and knowledge of our craft. Come along with us if you are a software engineer and information engineer who
- cares about independence (even if you are dependent on a platform or stack),
- needs increased productivity and quality (even if you are sometimes forced to use less than productive tools),
- wants to be able to collaborate with other developers, designers, and architects (whether they work on your project or are part of your social network),
- enjoys being an active member of a community (even though you might, most of the time, just be a "heads down" developer trying to get the job done).
Whenever others have left Borland, I have added them to my Borland alumni list. Tomorrow, I will add myself to the list. With CodeGear becoming a part of Embarcadero Technologies, the transition is different. I am not leaving Borland per se, I am joining a company with the same tools heritage, shared mission, and common vision. As for Borland, its employees, partners, and customers, I wish you all the best of everything.
How will I feel tomorrow when I drive in to work? Will something be different? I’ll let you know tomorrow.
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posted @ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:28:23 +0000 by David Intersimone
Embarcadero 2008 Early Adopters and Beta Program
Embarcadero runs open beta programs for its products. There are two programs running right now: PowerSQL 1.1 and DB Optimizer 1.0.
PowerSQL simplifies SQL development for application developers with many features for improving productivity and reducing errors. A rich SQL IDE with code completion, real-time error checking, code formatting and sophisticated object validation tools help streamline coding tasks.
Embarcadero DB Optimizer maximizes database performance by enabling developers and DBAs to quickly discover, diagnose, and optimize poor-performing SQL. DB Optimizer eliminates performance bottlenecks by discovering data intensive or frequently executed queries, focusing in on specific SQL statements through query statistics (CPU, I/O, wait times), and optimizing any problematic statements.
Links to programs and products:
Both of these products should appeal to all CodeGear customers who care about database development and database optimization.
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posted @ Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:20:42 +0000 by David Intersimone
Webinar: Delphi for PHP for PHP developers
If yolu are interested in PHP development, fell free to join me today June 26, for our PHP webinar "Delphi for PHP for PHP developers".
I wll demonstrate how Delphi for PHP brings visual development to the world of PHP, and how powerful is our PHP editor, debugger and profiler. Below a list of features will you see in this presentation:
- Source code features
- Error Insight
- Sync Edit
- Structure Pane
- Code Insight
- Change tracking
- Macro record
- Code Folding
- Bookmarks
- Multiple editors
- UTF-8 support
- phpDoc support
- Customize the editor
- Code formatter
- Running and debugging a PHP legacy application
- Visual Designer and Templated forms
- Zend framework
- Build a database access
Register here
See you soon!!
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posted @ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:01:50 +0000 by Andreano Lanusse
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