I've called today www.codegear.com and, no surprise, I see the Embarcadero sign…
Last week I prepared a powerpoint-slide about one of my db-projects for a company and on my about-slide I inserted my experience and some other informations. After typing "1983 UCSD-Pascal" I realized that I have 25-years pascal experience. That's a long time, especially in the IT.
My first pascal with with the p-code card on a TI-99/4A computer from Texas Instruments, 16-bit in 1983 ....
I use Pascal from Borland Inc. from Turbo Pascal on Borland Pascal towards Object Pascal (started with Delphi 1 ... Delphi 2007 ehm Rad Studio 2007).
Meaning Borland & Pascal is for me a relation in the past and it's hard to remove the "Borland" but I'll make it....
I have a good feeling about the new company...
Both companies are not too big... this is for me an insurance that they don't include parts and destroy the other products of the smaller company.
Both companies are expert in a special market ... CodeGear have learned from the past and dropped some products (e.g. quattro pro, dBase, Paradox) that don't fit to the primary area of the company.
Now CodeGear offer IDE's for the market and with InterBase and BlackfishSQL smart and high quality databases. EMBT offers database-related stuff ....
I know the products from my trainings where I teach Oracle and MS-SQL administration and sometimes SQL-language and the quality are okay.
Both companies don't support only one OS/DB or so ....
Before I get some feedback about my opinion: I must admit that I'm a database-junkie, meaning I create over 95% db-related applications with InterBase, BlackfishSQL and Oracle (and perhaps in the future we'll see in the bigger db-market less Oracle and more MS-SQL, the market change IMO from Oracle more and more to MS-SQL). I compare it sometimes with the NDS from Novell and ADS from Microsoft.. The ADS isn't on the same level like the NDS but the administration is easier, e.g. in Oracle you need more expert-know then in MS-SQL to backup or
restore, with BF/IB you need less to nothing know-how but the db-market is very complex.
Best wishes to the Embarcadero CodeGear-team in Scotts Valley and all
the best for the next versions of RAD Studio!
After some quality problems in Delphi 8 and 2005 the team have found the right way and they improve the quality and the performance!
edit ... here a picture the p-code-card for the expansion-box from Texas Instruments:
and the TI-99/4A have many languages in 1981/83:
http://thomas.pfister.googlepages.com/MeinTI.jpg (German, I know but readable...)
2 Kommentare:
Blimey - never thought I'd see the venerable TI99/4A mentioned in a Delphi blog post.
CALL HCHAR(5,1, ':')
CALL HCHAR(5,2, 'D')
(I hope I got my r and c params the right way round - is intended to output a big grin smiley)
It was so much easier with Extended BASIC and PRINT AT.
:D
I had no idea there was ever a Pascal for the machine though. I cut my Pascal teeth on HiSpeed Pascal on my Amiga.
Ah, those were the days.
:)
Delphi was once my most favourite IDE but with the time passing and the market shifted, it seems being phased out. I hope that Delphi can move to a new direction such as RIA and have a new life in the software development arena.
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