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After-match: CodeGear and Borland in Q2

A transcript of the preliminary Q2 results for Borland is now available (10 pages). Just so we do have something to compare with included are results from Q1. Since it is a last time when there is a public obligation to report such information for CG, let’s take a look.

To keep the same format:

Three Months Ended Three Months Ended July 31, 2008 March 31, 2008 ALM DPG CodeGear || ALM DPG CodeGear Licenses 10,000 || 9,415 9,122 9,283
Service  21,900                  || 22,972  4,549   2,933
Total    31,900  10,000  10,800  || 32,387 13,671  12,216

This compares to the prior year Q2: enterprise license a decline of 28.4%; maintenance a decline of 2.4%; and training and consulting a decline of 20%.

ALM revenue was 1.4% below the previous quarter and 18.6% below the previous year. ALM license revenue showing growth of 6.3 % over the previous quarter, but declining 35% from the previous year. ALM maintenance growing 1% from the previous quarter and declining 2.1% from the previous year.

ALM training and consulting declining 19% from the previous quarter and declining 22.7% from the previous year. DPG revenue declined 27.3% from the previous quarter and declined 6.2% from the previous year. IDE revenue, which is now reported under discontinued operations, was $10.8 million and declined 11.5% from the previous quarter and 20.4% from the previous year.

Update Aug 18, 2008: Borland has published official numbers for Q2 which no longer include CodeGear exact numbers mentioned above. Rather it is shown under discontinued operations.

Borland Q4 2007 Earning Conference Call

http://biz.yahoo.com/cc/2/90362.html

I always amazed how those calls are presented.
So much hype which is expected…
By the way revenues announced are:

Borland: 61.5M
ALM: 36M
DPG: 9M
CG: 17M
Lost (non-GAP): 2.7M

2007 total:
Borland: 270M
ALM: 166M
DPG: 46M
CG: 57M
Lost (non-GAP): 9M

“Consulting and education business decreased by 25% from 2006, but it was a strategic decision”
“Our break even point is now 68M in revenue (for Q) from 93M from 6 Qs ago”

In general interesting content to listen to understand management standings…

Remember the titans – 2

I was looking for information about Eli Boling and found no info about his whereabouts in regard to Remember the titans, but I have found interesting location on Borland Web-site by Danny Thorpe - this is not a blog, but something similar about projects Danny has been working on during his presence at Borland. I am going to quote it here since I suspect it might disappear after information published ;) Last record is 2001 where page has been abandoned by the author.

Danny Thorpe, Staff Engineer, Delphi R&D, Borland Software Corporation  

These are the products and internal projects I’ve worked on over the past few years. Historical dates subject to change without notice.

Delphi 6 – May 2001
Most D6 compiler and RTL enhancements were a result of the Kylix efforts. Fortunately, Windows doesn’t inflict PIC codegen on us, but D6 benefited from the new internal assembler, language and directive enhancements introduced in Kylix, and new platform neutrality functions and constants carried over from the Kylix RTL. Function overload resolution got a little bit smarter, so WideString and AnsiString parameters in different function overloads were no longer considered ambiguous.

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Remember the titans

Well… it is not about the movie. Nice movie though…

Doing some research about Delphi you probably will immediately notice a page on wikipedia and off course there are a few well known names here. Everybody knows about Anders Hejlsberg, but let’s see what other ex-titans of Delphi world are doing these days – as it turned out Danny Thorpe after being at Google and Microsoft for some time finally settled at not that well known place called CoolIris. As it was indicated in his last entry in his MS blog, there are places better then Google, MS and Borland after all… You can read about his new adventures in his blog.

Spirit of innovation always been something growing inside Borland and now CodeGear, but after some time it seems to outgrowing a mothership’s corridors and offices and tend to find bigger more innovative places. It is a natural process, but it is sad to see it to happen, thinking how much more those people could do if they are to stay.
In order of departure:

Phillippe KahnFullPower Inc

When someone is talking about Pascal, his name is one of first come to mind.

Anders Hejlsberg – Microsoft

I think the only person who do not blog from this list, but there are plenty of interviews with him.

Chuck Jazdzewski – Microsoft

CJ: “Yes, I work at Microsoft. Yes, I believe it is a great company and is a fabulous place to work at. No, I don’t think that everything that Microsoft does and produces is wonderful and perfect. I believe that everyone is entitled to their opinion, as am I.”
Steve mentioned one particular blog entry - Fatherly Advice To New Programmers - bad title, good reading.

Danny Thorpe- CoolIris

DT: “As a junior engineer at Borland, I was witness to the creation of Delphi. Over the years I contributed to the development of Delphi’s run-time library, VCL component library, IDE, compiler and language on Windows, Linux and .NET platforms. I’ve had the enormous pleasure of working closely with Anders Hejlsberg, Chuck Jazdzewski, Eli Boling, and many other software wizards in Borland’s heyday.”

Corbin Dunn (somewhat outdated), but blogis active – having fun at Apple working on the AppKit

At least this is where I saw his name mentioned recently, not much in his blog though.

Steve Trefethen- Falafel Software

Any other name worth mentioned? Comment on this post…

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