You sort of hit on the one hope we have left, and that is IF the management group setup for CodeGear actually does take it'self seriously and can hold off some of the Borland management that has for so long been trying to destroy the tools division, they could actually rebuild it into something that really is saleable! It's a very remote possibility in my opinion, but we'll know a lot better once we see exactly how they structure things and who takes over running the tools division!
from Robert Meek dba Tangentals Design CCopyright 2006 Proud to be a moderator of "The Delphi Lists" at elists.org (["An unused program is the consequence of a higher logic!", nil]) As written in The Compendium of Accepted Robotic and Surrlogic Theorems Used in the Self Analysis of Elemental Positronic Pathways...1st Edition Revised -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cameron Cole Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 9:10 AM To: Delphi-Talk Discussion List Subject: Re: Borland Forming CodeGeartoFocusExclusivelyonDeveloper Productivity You are correct in that a subsidary can be a puppet company, but one huge change does take place. Accounting is done seperately. CodeGear and how they do will now be seperated from the rest of Borland. This will allow shareholders and everyone else to see how CodeGear is actually doing... how viable it is. They should have done this up front and then looked for a buyer, but in typical corporate management thought there revenue from this division would get some people really interested. Personally, I think CodeGear will be left alone to focus on the language market. Not because Borland can't interfere (they still can quite easily), but because I don't think they have focus on that market space any more or more to the point just don't care. The person they hire to run CodeGear will most likely have a set of numbers to meet quarterly and that will cause him/her to start managing CodeGear better. I certainly wouldn't want to be the guy/gal that has to turn it around, but you can bet that Borland management will put the screws to someone to get revenue up in that subsiderary. Also, don't be surprised if somewhere down the road they spin it off into a completely different company. If they get the revenues up by moving into other platforms, they only need one big hit and IPO-a-go-go. If it falters, they will likely lop it off. If revenues stay flat, they will likely go with the status quo since revenue is a huge determination in a companies stock price. All of this is IMO obviously. __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
