Thinking about Software, Products and Projects
As we all know, CodeGear will have a new home in a few months when merger is completed. Considering the size of two companies, I do see it more as a merger then acquisition at this point. Future movements will define the term better in the sense that if some Read more
News of the day – CodeGear being finally and quietly sold… to Embarcadero Technologies… At Embarcadero Technologies we know databases, we understand the important role they play in every organization and we love meeting their challenges. It took two+ years for story to end. From original $100M+, it now came Read more
Thank to Andreano Lanusse for posting a link which confirms some of worries about the current state of the MySQL as an Open Source project discussed earlier: Michael Widenius (often called Monty), the main author of the original version of the open-source MySQL database and a founding member of the MySQL AB Read more
About the week ago I have mentioned a new look of the new Borland’s HQ. No more would it be… As of 24-Apr-2008, Borland will be on the move again to a new location begining 01-Oct-2008. New place is about 3 miles to the west and into to the hills.
Do we see an introduction of the Web 3.0? There were talks for a while that Web 2.0 is coming. We have seen astonishing growth of the Social network solutions, virtual offices, companies rushing into Virtual machines business (Virtual PC, VMWare, Virtual Box, Citrix, etc), remote desktops (Mac, Windows RDS), widget engines (Yahoo, Google, …), Read more
It has been a very lean and easy option of .Net to able serialize/deserialize any serializable object instance. Only closest option in Delphi is to stream the component using WriteComponent/WriteComponentRes of TStream/TWriter (used for Form storage as DFM, for example). It can be then read back using appropriate counterpart ReadComponent/ReadComponentRes. Depend on Read more
As you probably remember, Borland has moved to Texas and got a new headquarters, check the street view. Compare to this which is still a CodeGear’s home. From cosy place to enterprise style. Some people are saying “look at the dog and you will know how the owner looks like”. I think Read more