Borland announced the establishment of CodeGear, a wholly owned subsidiary expected to come to life early in 2007. Read the press release here.

The original plan (from early this year) called for an investor buying the Developer Tools Group. It seems to me this did not work out, so Borland is executing Plan B. Fingers crossed…

Good luck CodeGear!

Some more thoughts: it seems Borland was not successful selling the IDE group, which does not bode well for the future of the IDE team.

On the other hand, if the newly formed company can operate profitably, our most beloved Delphi may have a stable future. This is a big if, though.

Borland (now CodeGear) is the last “big” developer tool vendor out there other than Microsoft, and those who really worked with Delphi know how powerful tool it is.

I find DavidI’s comment (”We’re also working on plans that can help developers take advantage of growing and emerging areas like web services, Ruby, Python and Ajax.”) interesting: on one hand it would be completely foolish for them to go into new languages before they get thir act right with current tools IMHO, on the other hand, it would be a marvelous fusion between CodeGear stuff and Morfik technology with some Mono spicing.

Just think for a moment:

• on the server side, based on Mono or .NET with all the server side tech they provide and Delphi Pascal/C#/Java as true and tried languages;
• on the client side Morfik technology providing language cross-compilation to JavaScript;
• and the two companies fine-tuning and enhancing the Morfik application framework with code from VCL and additional UI controls and services.

A wonderful day-dream…