Embarcadero Technologies
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Embarcadero Technologies is an American computer software
company that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to software through its various dynamic product divisions. Founded in October 1993 by Stephen Wong and Stuart Browning
with a single database tool for Sybase DBAs released in December of the same year Rapid SQL, it later added tools for software development on Microsoft Windows
and other operating system
s, and for database design, development and management, for platforms including Oracle
, Microsoft SQL Server
, IBM DB2
, Sybase
and MySQL
.
design solution provider. In October 2005 Embarcadero acquired data security business Ambeo. In June 2007, Thoma Cressey Bravo
bought Embarcadero, and it became a private company. Wayne Williams was appointed chief executive officer of Embarcadero Technologies in 2007.
On May 7 2008 Borland Software Corporation
announced that its software development tools division, CodeGear
, was to be sold to Embarcadero Technologies for an expected $23 million price and $7 million in CodeGear accounts receivables retained by Borland. The acquisition closed on 30 June 2008 for approximately $24.5 million.
, USA with other offices in Toronto
, Melbourne
, Munich
, Maidenhead
(United Kingdom
) and Iaşi
(Romania
). the company had an annual revenue of $US60 million, and about 270 employees.
Software Company. Codegear owned a number of application development products.
Computer software
Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....
company that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to software through its various dynamic product divisions. Founded in October 1993 by Stephen Wong and Stuart Browning
Stuart Browning
Stuart Browning is a political commentator, writer, film director, film producer, entrepreneur and health care policy commentator. He is currently producing The Free Market Cure Video Series, a collection of short films arguing against collectivized medicine and for the benefits of free markets in...
with a single database tool for Sybase DBAs released in December of the same year Rapid SQL, it later added tools for software development on Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
and other operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
s, and for database design, development and management, for platforms including Oracle
Oracle Database
The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....
, Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...
, IBM DB2
IBM DB2
The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix , Linux, IBM i , z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions...
, Sybase
Sybase
Sybase, an SAP company, is an enterprise software and services company offering software to manage, analyze, and mobilize information, using relational databases, analytics and data warehousing solutions and mobile applications development platforms....
and MySQL
MySQL
MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
.
History
In April 2000 Embarcadero Technologies was listed on NASDAQ. In November the same year, the company acquired GDPro, a UMLUnified Modeling Language
Unified Modeling Language is a standardized general-purpose modeling language in the field of object-oriented software engineering. The standard is managed, and was created, by the Object Management Group...
design solution provider. In October 2005 Embarcadero acquired data security business Ambeo. In June 2007, Thoma Cressey Bravo
Thoma Cressey Bravo
Thoma Cressey Bravo, formerly Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, is a private equity and growth capital firm based in Chicago and San Francisco...
bought Embarcadero, and it became a private company. Wayne Williams was appointed chief executive officer of Embarcadero Technologies in 2007.
On May 7 2008 Borland Software Corporation
Borland
Borland Software Corporation is a software company first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, Cupertino, California and finally Austin, Texas. It is now a Micro Focus subsidiary. It was founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn.-The 1980s:...
announced that its software development tools division, CodeGear
CodeGear
CodeGear is a wholly owned division of Embarcadero Technologies. CodeGear develops software development tools such as the Delphi IDE, the programming language Delphi, and the database server InterBase. Originally a division of Borland Software Corporation, it was launched on 14 November 2006...
, was to be sold to Embarcadero Technologies for an expected $23 million price and $7 million in CodeGear accounts receivables retained by Borland. The acquisition closed on 30 June 2008 for approximately $24.5 million.
Company
The company headquarters is in San Francisco, CaliforniaCalifornia
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, USA with other offices in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, Maidenhead
Maidenhead
Maidenhead is a town and unparished area within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, in Berkshire, England. It lies on the River Thames and is situated west of Charing Cross in London.-History:...
(United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
) and Iaşi
Iasi
Iași is the second most populous city and a municipality in Romania. Located in the historical Moldavia region, Iași has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Romanian social, cultural, academic and artistic life...
(Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
). the company had an annual revenue of $US60 million, and about 270 employees.
Database products
- Rapid SQL is a cross-platform SQL IDE, launched in December 1993.
- DBArtisan is a cross-platform database administration tool for data availability, performance, and security, launched in April 1994.
- ER/StudioER/StudioER/Studio is data architecture and database design software developed by Embarcadero Technologies. It works across multiple database platforms and is used by data architects, data modelers, database administrators and business analysts to create and manage database designs, document and reuse data...
is a data-modeling tool for database design, launched in March 1996.
- Change Manager is a database change management tool for Windows and Linux launched in March 1999, which allows database schema versions to be compared, monitored, and altered. The tool also supports comparisons and synchronization for data and configuration settings.
- Performance Center is a tool to monitor database performance, launched in March 2001.
- EA/Studio is a tool for modeling how a business operates.
- Schema Examiner is a database schema tool to review and find design errors in a database schema.
- PowerSQL is an Integrated Development EnvironmentIntegrated development environmentAn integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...
(IDE) for SQL application development with native support for IBM DB2 for LUW, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, and JDBC, available as a stand-alone application or an Eclipse plugin.
- DBOptimizer is an SQL profiling and tuning IDE tool.
- InterBaseInterBaseInterBase is a relational database management system currently developed and marketed by Embarcadero Technologies. InterBase is distinguished from other DBMSs by its small footprint, close to zero administration requirements, and multi-generational architecture...
is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed and marketed by CodeGear which runs on the Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Solaris operating systems.
Application development products
In July 2008 Embarcadero acquired CodeGear from the BorlandBorland
Borland Software Corporation is a software company first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, Cupertino, California and finally Austin, Texas. It is now a Micro Focus subsidiary. It was founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn.-The 1980s:...
Software Company. Codegear owned a number of application development products.
- Delphi is a rapid application development (RAD) environment and object-oriented dialect of the PascalPascal (programming language)Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968/9 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.A derivative known as Object Pascal...
programming language, developed from Turbo PascalTurbo PascalTurbo Pascal is a software development system that includes a compiler and an integrated development environment for the Pascal programming language running on CP/M, CP/M-86, and DOS, developed by Borland under Philippe Kahn's leadership...
. Delphi runs on Microsoft Windows, and produces applications for Windows, Mac OS X, and Apple computerApple ComputerApple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
portable devices.
- C++Builder is equivalent to Delphi, but based on the C++C++C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...
programming language instead of Pascal, using the Delphi Visual Component Library and a native C++ compiler. Most components developed in Delphi can be used in C++Builder with no modification, although the reverse is not true.
- Delphi PrismDelphi PrismDelphi Prism is a rapid application development tool for the Microsoft .NET Framework and Mono, developed by RemObjects Software and distributed by Embarcadero Technologies....
is a rapid application development tool for the Microsoft .NET Framework and Mono, developed by Embarcadero Technologies and RemObjects Software.
- Embarcadero RAD Studio is a rapid application development package which includes Delphi, C++Builder and Delphi Prism, for building native Windows, .NET, Web, and database applications.
- RadPHP, formerly Delphi for PHPDelphi for PHPRadPHP is an IDE and rapid application development framework for the PHP programming language developed by Embarcadero Technologies.The VCL includes many components that can be used dynamically with each other....
, is an IDE and rapid application development framework for PHPPHPPHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
. The VCL for PHP class library includes many components that can be used dynamically with each other.
- 3rdRail is an integrated development environment for Ruby on Rails.
- TurboRuby is an integrated development environment for the RubyRuby (programming language)Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was first developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto...
programming language.
- JBuilderJBuilderJBuilder is an integrated development environment for the programming language Java, from Borland, and then CodeGear. Codegear was purchased by Embarcadero Technologies in 2008....
is a Java IDE built on the open source Eclipse framework.
- J Optimizer is an optimizer for JavaJava (programming language)Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
and Java EE applications.