Wednesday, May 231, 2006 - 9:30am to 1:00pm Renassiance Hotel 50 N. 3rd Street Columbus, OH 43215
Borland Presenter - Anders Ohlsson
The road show is designed to update you on the advanced new features of Delphi 2006. The Road Show is a unique opportunity to put yourself ‘in the know’ and: a) Learn about great new technologies that will make a big difference to you and your users/customers,
B) Discover exactly how Borland’s continuing investment in IDEs is building an even brighter future for the developer community, C) Meet and talk with the people shaping the future of the technologies that you know and love.
What Will Be Covered: 1) Borland/Delphi and the “DevCo” spin-off update, 2) IDE overview and Developer productivity, 3) Moving Delphi Client/Server applications to multi-tier, 4) Build and run model Driven Software
Registration/sign-in starts at 9am. The presentation starts at 9:30am and lasts for approximately three hours.
For more information and to register, use the following URL:
http://208.109.7.163/html/borland_inside/landing.htm
Just announced, “Delphi 2006, The Inside Track” is coming to Columbus on May 31. The event will start at 9:30 AM at the Renassiance Hotel.
Key Features Include:
* Enterprise Core Objects III (ECO™ III) Framework - includes valuable enterprise application services, such as object-relational-mapping and transparent object persistence, saving the time and complexity of building and maintaining custom services
* Enhanced Visual Component Library (VCL) - provides easy graphical user interface (GUI) development with a large selection of GUI components, with auto-positioning and customisable guidelines
* Extended IDE / ALM Integration - allows you to take control of the development lifecycle process by leveraging integration with leading Borland ALM products “Live Templates” system - enables you to tab through fields and insert points of any template, significantly accelerating coding productivity
* “Live Templates” System - enables you to tab through fields and insert points of any template, significantly accelerating coding productivity
An interesting note from Alan Bauer’s blog:
“DevCo folks are isolated and running separately at this point. This is a from a product/marketing/sales perspective. Due to SOX rules, the financial aspects must remain intertwined until the divestiture is complete.
It is also my understanding that the Seque portion was “right-sized” prior to the close of the deal.
For the record as well, DevCo is hiring and has many openings available today, and will have many more when the separation completes.”
Also, on May 3, David I had this to say:
“Borland is working to have a buyer identified within the next several months.”
Today Borland announced the layoff of 300 employees, or about 20% of its workforce. Most of those laid off were part of the companies international operations, a move designed to bring about geographic consolidation. Groups of developers were NOT part of the layoffs.
Of course, the development tools staff will soon be receiving paychecks from another employer anyway as part of the planned divestiture. In this ComputerWorld article about the layoffs, Borland officials are quoted as saying that “strong number of qualified bidders” are interested in purchasing the tools business.
All the latest considered, the future of Delphi still looks better than ever. Stay tuned!
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