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
Well this is definitely sad! I got into programming by reading Douglas Stivison’s “Introduction To Turbo Pascal” when I was still in high school. I was always a huge fan of Philippe Khan and the vision he had at the helm.
Yes, it was stupid of them to buy out dated Ashton Tate with its crappy DBase program when Paradox was waaay superior.
I feel they should’ve came out with Delphi for Mac and Linux at an earlier time. Kylix took so long to materialize and then it was dropped.
Anyhow, I don’t think there will ever be a company like the original Borland. If the Open Source movement had caught on much quicker — back then — and Linux and Mac was at the market level they enjoy now (but only 10 or 15 years then), I think they would’ve made a lot of noise with some great products.
But honestly, Microsoft also has a lot to do with Borland’s demise. They competed unfairly in the Office market and was able to give things away thanks to its Windows monopoly. Companies like Sun, Borland, Corel, WordPerfect, and Netscape because of those friggin peeps in Redmond. Now Google is taking it to them and its a whole different Open Source ball game.