[DUG] So Embacadero has purchased CodeGear....

[Richard Vowles]

Ha!


Sorry, I just got busy. Er, I didn't read all the way through it until
someone said it was cheap - and yes, I think $23m was way too low!

What do I think? Well I'm glad they are away from Borland for one thing -
CodeGear's back office infrastructure has been pretty dire because they have
had to use Borland's - nothing to do with CodeGear itself, all to do with
Borland. So I'm hoping that will change. Given it is the sale of the
*assets*, I'm not sure what is going to happen now. We have two seminars
scheduled for June (one Delphi one by the way!) and I don't really know what
will happen, so I need to get confirmation on whether to go ahead with them.

The Delphi presentation was going to be held in Auckland, Hamilton and
Christchurch (as Wellington is such a small community it doesn't make
economic sense unless Alistair wishes to donate the use of his presentation
room :-) I'll talk more about it once I know more!

So yeah, don't know what to think - don't know how it affects us and our
plans. Given Delphi is the jewel in the crown of CodeGear, I think that is
probably the reason they were interested in CodeGear...

Richard

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-
> bounces at delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Conor Boyd
> Sent: Thursday, 8 May 2008 10:13 AM
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: RE: [DUG] So Embacadero has purchased CodeGear....
> 
> Well, I don't know what they're getting for their money, but I would
> have thought it was very cheap.
> 
> Additionally, given that they were talking about US$100m+ 2 years ago,
> it definitely is.
> 
> Richard, since you lobbed this little news item in and ran away ;-),
> I'm
> interested to know what your thoughts are on the subject?