As you may have heard, I'll be leaving Borland by the end
The month to take a job at Microsoft. This has is not been a easy decision
To make, but I have now been with Borland for years, and I feel
That's it's time for me to try some new challenges. For those of worried about Delphi's future, I want to assure your
that's the product is in the hands of Ly competent team's
people for whom I harbor the deepest respect. Back in the "old" Turbo
Pascal days It is possible for one to write and maintain a
entire product. This is no longer the case. Delphi is built by a
team, and I have full confidence into the team's ability to develop and
deliver new versions of Delphi. In fact, the Delphi team at this point
are almost twice the size it was when we shipped 1.0 in early ' 95. And
Delphi97 is going to being a great product which solves a number of
problems you ' ve been asking us about, such As multi-tier database
Access and Com/activex support. When you build a product like Turbo Pascal or Delphi, it is incredibly
Rewarding to the enthusiasm of developers and the great
Applications it ' s been used to create. I can ' t tell you how much I
Appreciate all of the support for you ' ve given over the years. Anders
From:lance Devin (Borland) 75674,1251 We have the brightest people in the industry. One of the reasons to
Moving to a C + + backend is to create less reliance on Anders in
Critical areas like this. While Anders'll surely be missed to his
Intelligence, architectural insights, companionship, and leadership,
We have many other guys this have already stepped up to the plate to
Make Delphi, the best product in the market. We in Borland have the
The technology to put the customer at the center of our
Business and to meet your needs. While your concerns are warranted, we have the about this for known
Some time and it does not affect the way we focus or produce product. Lance
From:zack Urlocker (Borland) 76217,1053 As Lance has indicated, we ' re cautious about pre-announcing our
Products, but we did have quite a few interesting products under
Development. We ' ll start showing a bit more of this month and
Next at Software Development East as the at Comdex. I Folks
Would be pleased to and improvements that we'll be making
Available. In the fact, you ' ll be the Delphi fits into a whole family of
Interoperable development tools that includes Client/server and
Internet development. Strictly from point of view
Innovation there is in the box, I am the Delph97 is actually more
Innovative than Delphi 1.0 or 2.0 by tackling some pretty
Problems for all developers. --zack
From:charlie Calvert 76711,533 Delphi is in great shape. It'll ship in time and would be by far
The best Delphi tool to hit the market yet. The new COM and
Distributed application support'll make this version more than a
Worthy Succsor to previous versions of Delphi. There is simply no
Reason for concern here. Delphi would be a outstanding tool. More
than a match for its competition. Borland itself has a much stronger future than. For one
Thing, we have plenty of cash. The company was in very strong shape
Financially. Furthermore we have greate Delphi, C + + and Java products
In the pipeline, with the all of them scheduled to ship in the next few
Months. I don ' t mean to paint too rosy a. Obviously losing Anders
is a bad break, and clearly we are looking forward to the
New products would increase our revenue stream. Nevertheless, Delphi is
The best tool of its kind in the field today, and it'll remain so
For the forseeable future. With strong C + + and Java products coming
Out in the future, there are reason for even the most pragmatic
To keep a eye on Borland. Sure are tough times, but there are-lots of reasons to look
Forward to a good future for Borland and its outstanding technology. -Charlie
From:zack Urlocker (Borland) 76217,1053 As many of you have read, yes, Anders are leaving next month and he'll
be going to Microsoft. We ' re certainly sad to Anders leave. But It
was a personal decision in his front. After being this years, he's
decided to try something different. The architectural work that Anders
covers are complete for Delphi and we ' re in beta. Anders departure
won ' t affect the ship date or features going. Chuck
Jazdzewski, who some of your probably know, 'll be moving up from
Co-architect on Delphi to taking over the FU ll architectural duties.
Chuck has been longer than I have and worked closely with Anders
for many years especially on VCL, the UI buil Der etc. He's also played
an important in Java and other products. So again, even though we'll miss I the Delphi team are in very
good shape to ship a very impressive release. There is a whole crew of
folks working on Delphi many of whom have been involved since the
very beginning of the Project and have a strong vision for where we
are taking it in the next release and beyond. (In fact, I ' ve been
pleased to "some new features being worked on" I have been
asking for about 3 years n ow!) The other thing worth noting are that even though we ' ve had our
weaknesses from sales point of view, particularly I n the US, we
Don t have a problem with a and technology. In fact, beginning
and Intrabuilder last month, we ' ve got the strongest product pipeline
we ' ve had in 6 years with Intrabuilder C/S, new versions of Delphi and
C + + and Latte coming that'll make folks take the look at
another, Just like when we shipped Delphi 1.0. In addition, with the
acquisition of Open Environment completing into November that would
enable us to add a higher deg Ree of scalability to my development
tools so, they can is used in applications with tens of thousands
of users . That ' s a important part of our overall "Golden Gate"
strategy to bridge between the client server architecture and the
Internet architecture for corporate customers. Fixing the sales situation isn't trivial and it won ' t happen over
Night, but its a heckuva lot easier than if we had the opposite
Situation and had no new products coming. Then I ' d be worried. Whitney
Lynn has joined the company as interim and acting CEO and
President is a very smart guy and are going to being spending a lot of his
Time focused on rebuilding the sales organization so we can be
Profitable. That, coupled and the new products are what'll get the
Company turned around. You'll begin to the positive news in the
Coming weeks and we ' ll be showing some of the technologies in the fall
At SD-Washington as Comdex in Vegas. --zack Urlocker
Director of Product Management
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