What Happened to "Borland Delphi"? What is CodeGear? What is Embarcadero?
Tuesday July 7, 2009
in Delphi Info :: Take a quick look at the box where your Delphi installation CDs (DVDs, diskettes??) are. Does it say "Borland Delphi" or "CodeGear Delphi" or "Embarcadero Technologies Delphi"?
If your box states that Delphi is a product from Borland company or from CodeGear company you are probably holding an older version of Delphi in your hands!
Read the full article to find out What Happened to "Borland Delphi"? What is CodeGear? What is Embarcadero?
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Borland don’t exists anymore.. now it’s part of MicroFocus (and from CompuWare the Quality-Area, too) … perhaps we can expect a TurboCobol.net sometimes
I think it’s a shame that Borland has pretty much gone – rather like a brilliant comet that gradually breaks up and disappears. I always thought they made excellent tools (although I never quite got to grips with ObjectVision or TurboPascal for Windows — too many parentheses!).
Once PK left, it seems to me that they floundered about trying to decide what they could make money from instead of really concentrating on the developer market. The name change to (insipid) Inspire just diluted the potent Borland name and confused (or alienated) lots of people.
Dabbling with Office suites was largely a waste of time and money and out of their core area of expertise (although I bought Quattro Pro and used that for many years). They have missed so many opportunities by trying to re-invent themselves.
The whole IDE paradigm is largely due to Borland and TurboPascal – excellent product at an irresistable price point. Delphi was a revolutionay product when it was launched as it was priced well and it allowed you to do so much so quickly – and it hid the ugliness of programming in Windows! I just wish it was available for other platforms.
I certainly hope that Delphi lives on.
Sometimes i wish there was still Borland on the box. My experience with Embarcadero-support isn’t that good. I still believe (more than ever) in Delphi as a product.
Michael,
Check out Lazarus/FreePascal at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org. It’s an Open Source project that has been around for quite a few years. It started before Kylix and is going even stronger now that Kylix is gone. It has its quirks and limitations but can be quite useful. It’s certainly worth a look.
Larry