Embarcadero gets some awards; Borland still optimizes costs, now almost broke

March 18, 2009

Very nice to see that Embarcadero (current owners of Delphi) continue the good Borland tradition on receiving prestigious distinctions, e.g. 2 Jolt awards 2009:

Change and Configuration Management Tools
Productivity Winners:
* Change Manager (Embarcadero Technologies)

Development Environments
Productivity Winners:
* JBuilder 2008 (Embarcadero Technologies)

joltawards.com

Meanwhile, after 1 year since selling CodeGear for about $30 millions, BORL is at the lowest price in quotations history, at about $0.31, with a market capitalization of … $30 millions.
[google.com/finance]

The CEO Ted Nielsen has resigned and went to VMWare, and

[Borland] also announced a work force reduction of about 15 percent and preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2008, including revenue if $38.5 million to $40 million.
Borland officials said the company will reduce its work force by approximately 130 employees, which amounts to the aforementioned 15 percent of the company’s regular full-time staff. Borland said the work force reduction and cost cuts will save the company $12 million to $14 million.

[eweek.com]

Yeah, they had revenues of … $30 millions again :)
But no worries, in a year or two Embarcadero will pay $1 million for the Borland brand (they will have so optimised the costs that they will simply close) and we’ll start all over again :D

Marius

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The ideal IDE

October 27, 2007

If anybody from CodeGear is lost on this page, take a look at this article: The ideal IDE. Excellent list of ideas to have in an IDE.

This one is my favorite:

Code searching:

  • A very fast way to get from the current function you are in to any caller or to any function the function is calling (and class definitions, …)
  • Ability to instantly search for a specific artifact (kind of like google / windows live search). As I type it in, I see the filtered results. This is NOT the find feature.

I think the new CodeGear IDE for Ruby and Rails has something similar. But it is integrated into the IDE like small helper windows. What would be neat is some keyboard shortcuts to quickly navigate the callers/callees.

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