 As you may have heard, I will be leaving Borland by the end
of the month to take a job at Microsoft. This has not been an easy decision
to make, but I have now been with Borland for 13 years, and I feel
that it is time for me to try some new challenges.
For those of you worried about Delphi's future, I want to assure you
that the product is in the hands of an incredibly competent team of
people for whom I harbor the deepest respect. Back in the old Turbo
Pascal days it was possible for one person to write and maintain an
entire product. This is no longer the case. Delphi was built by a
team, and I have full confidence in the team's ability to develop and
deliver new versions of Delphi. In fact, the Delphi team at this point
is almost twice the size it was when we shipped 1.0 in early '95. And
Delphi97 is going to be a great product which solves a number of the
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 see 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 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 was to create less reliance on Anders in
critical areas like this. While Anders will surely be missed for his
intelligence, architectural insights, companionship, and leadership,
we have many other guys that have already stepped up to the plate to
make Delphi 97 the best product in the market. We in Borland have the
resources and the technology to put the customer at the center of our
business and to meet your needs. While your concerns are warranted, we have known about this for quite
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 do have quite a few interesting products under
development. We'll start showing a bit more of these this month and
next at Software Development East as well as at Comdex. I think folks
will be pleased to see the improvements that we'll be making
available. In fact, you'll see that Delphi fits into a whole family of
interoperable development tools that includes client/server and
Internet development. Strictly from a point of view of how much
innovation there is in the box, I think Delph97 is actually more
innovative than Delphi 1.0 or 2.0 by tackling some pretty tough
problems for all developers. --Zack
From: Charlie Calvert 76711,533 Delphi 97 is in great shape. It will ship on time and will be by far
the best Delphi tool to hit the market yet. The new COM and
distributed Application support will make this version more than a
worthy succsor to previous versions of Delphi. There is simply no
reason for concern here. Delphi 97 will be an outstanding tool. More
than a match for its competition. Borland itself has a much stronger future than you suggest. For one
thing, we have plenty of cash. The company is in very strong shape
financially. Furthermore we have greate Delphi, C++ and Java products
in the pipeline, with all of them scheduled to ship in the next few
months. I don't mean to paint too rosy a picture here. Obviously losing Anders
is a bad break, and clearly we are looking forward to the day when our
new products will increase our revenue stream. Nevertheless, Delphi is
the best tool of its kind in the field today, and it will remain so
for the forseeable future. With strong C++ and Java products coming
out in the future, there is reason for even the most pragmatic people
to keep an eye on Borland. Sure these 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 is leaving next month and he'll
be going to Microsoft. We're certainly sad to see Anders leave. But it
was a personal decision on his front. After being here 13 years, he's
decided to try something different. The architectural work that Anders
covers is complete for Delphi 97 and we're in beta. Anders departure
won't affect the ship date or features going forward. Chuck
Jazdzewski, who some of you probably know, will be moving up from
co-architect on Delphi to taking over the full architectural duties.
Chuck has been here longer than I have and worked closely with Anders
for many years especially on VCL, the UI builder etc. He's also played
an important role on Java and other products here. So again, even though we'll miss I think the Delphi team is in very
good shape to ship a very impressive release. There is a whole crew of
folks working on Delphi 97 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 this next release and beyond. (In fact, I've been
pleased to see some new features being worked on that I have been
asking for for about 3 years now!) The other thing worth noting is that even though we've had our
weaknesses from a sales point of view, particularly in the US, we
don't have a problem with products and technology. In fact, beginning
with 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 will make folks take another look at
Borland, just like when we shipped Delphi 1.0. In addition, with the
acquisition of Open Environment completing in November that will
enable us to add a higher degree of scalability to our development
tools so that they can be used in applications with tens of thousands
of users. That's an 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 is not 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 who has joined the company as interim and acting CEO and
President is a very smart guy and is going to be spending a lot of his
time focused on rebuilding the sales organization so that we can be
profitable. That, coupled with the new products is what will get the
company turned around. You'll begin to see more positive news in the
coming weeks and we'll be showing some of the technologies in the fall
at SD East in washington as well as Comdex in vegas. --Zack Urlocker
Director of product management
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