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Embarcadero is now owned by these guys: https://www.ideracorp.com https://www.ideracorp.com Their primary modus operandi seems to be: buy tech that's still bri
by dmitriid 6y ago
Embarcadero is now owned by these guys: https://www.ideracorp.com https://www.ideracorp.com
Their primary modus operandi seems to be: buy tech that's still bringing in money, fire everyone except a small core of people to keep the product barely alive with minor updates, sell expensive long-term licenses to enterprises.
It's no surprise that "the latest official version of Bold is is for Delphi 2006" [1] and that the goal of the opensource version is "is to encourage customers active on the library to share their more recent versions" [2]
[1] https://delphi.fandom.com/wiki/Bold_for_Delphi#The_legal_rights https://delphi.fandom.com/wiki/Bold_for_Delphi#The_legal_rig...
[2] https://blogs.embarcadero.com/bold-for-delphi-is-open-source/ https://blogs.embarcadero.com/bold-for-delphi-is-open-source...
- mhd 6y ago> buy tech that's still bringing in money, fire everyone except a small core of people to keep the product barely alive with minor updates, sell expensive long-term licenses to enterprises. That's pretty much what they did with Sencha/ExtJS, too. Not that it wasn't in dire straits even before the acquisition, though.
- dmitriid 6y agoAnd Travis CI. On the day they announced acquisition they let go something like 80% of the staff.