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   RickM wrote:   
   > [...]   
   > Now that Embarcadero has purchased Codegear, what does this mean for the   
   > future of BDE/Paradox?  Embarcadero makes database tools... do they have   
   > their own replacement for DbExpress/BDE planned?  Will they sell BDE to   
   > Corel?   
   >  Does Corel even want it?  Will they open the doors to Corel to work with   
   > and improve BDE?   
      
   In many ways, I think that what happened with Paradox is typical of what   
   happened to both Borland and Corel:  they really forgot "what t'heck they   
   were doing."  It no longer was possible to say, in a short sentence, just   
   what they "did."   
      
   Maybe Embarcadero will change that; maybe it'll just be another holding-pen   
   for (foolishly) cast-off digital assets.   
      
   At the end of the day, though, millions of code-writers need good, efficient   
   tools to do their jobs.  Not "to talk about how good it's going to be," but   
   to actually do it.  There is always going to be a market for great tools,   
   and it seems odd that a company that literally founded itself on Turbo   
   Pascal, forgot that rune so quickly.   
      
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