Blog post "Embarcadero Acquires Castalia and Usertility" at http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2015-january-embarcadero-acquires-castalia-usertility.html

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Blog post "Embarcadero Acquires Castalia and Usertility" at http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2015-january-embarcadero-acquires-castalia-usertility.html
http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2015-january-embarcadero-acquires-castalia-usertility.html

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  1. Jean-Marc KienerJanuary 21, 2015 at 2:32 AM

    Nice. But i think the embarcadero people should better use their time to bugfix the IDE (out of memory errors) and forward the IDE to 64bit.

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  2. Marco CantùJanuary 21, 2015 at 2:36 AM

    Jean-Marc Kiener I fully agree that's important... but not sure how the two relate. Well, actually I know, this will allow us to remove some older and less efficient technology from the IDE, leveraging Castalia features. So it can only help to reach the goal.

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  3. Jean-Marc KienerJanuary 21, 2015 at 2:40 AM

    Marco Cantù
    You talk about features, i am talking about stability. If one meets the other  i am happy ;-)

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  4. AvatarxJanuary 21, 2015 at 2:49 AM

    I like this : "...that Jacob, the author of the tools, will keep working on them and with us".

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  5. Bill MeyerJanuary 21, 2015 at 3:37 AM

    Marco Cantù If I may suggest it, the relation is simple: We spend our days in the IDE, and stability issues are annoying. 

    I would also add that I have mixed feelings about this, having become quite fond of some of the features of CnPack which do not appear to exist in Castalia. However, the overlap is rather large, and I am not sure I will suffer the effort of taming the overlap issues just to gain those features.

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  6. Marco CantùJanuary 21, 2015 at 4:02 AM

    Bill Meyer Sure, I get it. But what has the Castalia deal to do? It wasn't managed by R&D instead of working on the IDE...

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  7. Marco CantùJanuary 21, 2015 at 4:03 AM

    Jean-Marc Kiener Also my point. Castalia value is not only in features, but also in alternative core code we can leverage to improve stability. That's the hope, at least...

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  8. Bill MeyerJanuary 21, 2015 at 4:28 AM

    Marco Cantù OK, I see your perspective. But surely such an acquisition would have involved some insight from Dev and R&D?

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  9. Phillip WoonJanuary 21, 2015 at 6:20 AM

    Marco Cantù I'm assuming they can't remove the .Net code without rewriting the Together portions?

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  10. Asbjørn HeidJanuary 21, 2015 at 9:18 AM

    Bill Meyer The initial integration could just be a rename of some forms etc and integrating into the main installer. Shouldn't affect the core R&D crew significantly I imagine.

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  11. Nicholas RingJanuary 21, 2015 at 11:19 AM

    Marco Cantù Any news what will happen with current subscribers?

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  12. Jacob ThurmanJanuary 21, 2015 at 12:18 PM

    Nicholas Ring Current maintenance subscriptions will be honored. Embarcadero now owns the IP for Castalia, and have licensed it back to me for the purpose of continuing to support people who have current maintenance subscriptions.

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  13. Nicholas RingJanuary 21, 2015 at 12:35 PM

    Jacob Thurman  I just read your email and thanks for the further details.
    Marco Cantù Will Castalia be with all versions of the IDE or will it be limited to the higher end (or it hasn't been decided yet)?
    Ditto for Usertility?

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  14. Marco CantùJanuary 21, 2015 at 1:19 PM

    Castalia should be in all versions, well maybe not Starter. Usertility comes with hosting and hosting has a runtime fee and we should keep the same model. Details still not finalized, though.

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  15. David MillingtonJanuary 21, 2015 at 2:49 PM

    Marco Cantù I'm guessing from what you write that Castalia's tech will be truly integrated, as in natively part of the IDE, not still using the ToolsAPI etc and installed as a plugin. It suffered a bit I think from all the problems in the ToolsAPI and hacks that have to be used, and it would be great if it is (re)implemented straight into the IDE natively, avoiding all that.

    And (I know I have mentioned this before, but I hope it's ok to repeat) if there's any chance this might result in better / improved / new ToolsAPI features, it would be an amazing thing that I and others would be very very happy about.

    It's exciting news, and I'm glad Embarcadero did this. I'm looking forward to seeing the end result!

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  16. Edwin YipJanuary 22, 2015 at 3:03 AM

    Marco Cantù Hi Marco, thanks for sharing, it'll be good for Delphi users. I'm out of curiosity, assuming EMBT has also considered a similar product - ModelMaker Code Explorer, which is also mature and according to my experience years ago, it's runs faster then Castalia. What makes EMBT choose Castalia over MMX?

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  17. Marco CantùJanuary 22, 2015 at 3:42 AM

    Edwin Yip We don't discuss business opportunities and decisions around acquisitions. The two products have shared features, but also clear differences. And the owning companies are quite different as well. This doesn't mean we cannot consider other opportunities...

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