CodeGear is a wholly owned

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Embarcadero Technologies Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is an American computer software company that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports products and services related to software through several product divisions. It was founded in 1993, went public in 2000, ...

. CodeGear develops software development tools such as the Delphi Integrated development environment, the programming language Delphi, and the database server

InterBase InterBase is a relational database management system (RDBMS) currently developed and marketed by Embarcadero Technologies. InterBase is distinguished from other RDBMSs by its small footprint, close to zero administration requirements, and multi-g ...

. Originally a division of Borland Software Corporation, it was launched on 14 November 2006.

History

On 8 February 2006

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announced that it would seek a buyer for its IDE division and database products. During the spin-off negotiations, these divisions ("developer tools group") internally reorganized into a division called ''CodeGear''. Eventually, five parties bid for the group. However, no bidder offered Borland "numbers that appropriately reflected the value we think is in the business," according to a conference call with Borland CEO Tod Nielsen. Borland's 2006 annual report showed that its CodeGear IDE business had sales of US$75.7 million in 2006, which accounted for 25 percent of Borland's total revenue. On 7 May 2008, Borland Software Corporation and

announced that Embarcadero had "signed a definitive asset purchase agreement to purchase CodeGear." On 1 July 2008, Embarcadero Technologies announced the completed acquisition of CodeGear from Borland Software Corporation on 30 June 2008, for approximately $24.5 million.

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. era

On 25 August 2008, Embarcadero Technologies announced the release of Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009. On 28 September 2008, Embarcadero Technologies announced the release of InterBase SMP 2009. On 1 December 2008, Embarcadero Technologies announced the general availability of CodeGear RAD Studio 2009.

Products

RAD Studio Delphi is a general-purpose programming language and a software product that uses the Delphi dialect of the Object Pascal programming language and provides an integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid application development of desktop, ...

(including Delphi, Delphi Prism and C++Builder) *

Delphi for PHP Delphi (; ), in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), in ancient times was a sacred precinct that served as the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world. The oracle ...

Delphi Delphi (; ), in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), in ancient times was a sacred precinct that served as the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world. The oracle ...

Delphi Prism Oxygene (formerly known as Chrome) is a programming language developed by RemObjects Software for Microsoft's Common Language Infrastructure, the Java Platform and Cocoa. Oxygene is based on Delphi's Object Pascal, but also has influences fr ...

JBuilder JBuilder is a discontinued integrated development environment (IDE) for the programming language Java from Embarcadero Technologies. Originally developed by Borland, JBuilder was spun off with CodeGear which was eventually purchased by Embarcader ...

C++Builder C++Builder is a rapid application development (RAD) environment, originally developed by Borland and owned by Embarcadero Technologies (a subsidiary of Idera Software, Idera), for writing programs in the C++ programming language currently targeti ...

* JGear * 3rdRail

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Codegear Borland Companies based in Santa Cruz County, California Development software companies