Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager If you follow my twitter account or have attended the product address of CodeRage, you now that I've just made a big career change, joining Embarcadero Technologies. If you follow my twitter account or have attended the product address of CodeRage, you now that I've just made a big career change, joining Embarcadero Technologies. I've been working with Borland and Embarcadero products for over two decades, have been writing books on the technologies (well, mostly Delphi), have been a technical partner and my company was (and still remains) a sales partner in Italy. I've been in touch with the R&D team, developer relations, marketing people and product managers. But even recently I won't have envisioned joining the company. I was offered the job to help shape Delphi's future and didn't have to ponder a lot. The position I'm taking is Delphi Product Manager, although there is actually a product management team for RAD Studio, with split and shared responsibilities. I'll be based in Europe (working from home, when not on the road), where there are some of the R&D teams and a large number of Delphi customers. For Delphi developers in Europe this is good news, as it might be easier to reach me at "local" conferences and events. I'll start by attending Be-Delphi in 2 weeks. In case you are wondering, I'll keep doing some of my current activities, like keeping this blog open and active and use my personal twitter account. I'll try to put some of my (limited) free time on books writing, and make sure some of my open source projects have a future. But it is hard to tell, as I have a lot to learn right now. Needless to say I'm open for comments, use my new email address marco.cantu at embarcadero.com (but I'll keep monitoring also my older email accounts). Feel also free to use this blog for posting comments, ideas, constructive criticism... you know what I mean, we need a healthy and more relaxed community around Delphi. So, this is all for now. Stay tuned to this space for news and updates. It's a new adventure, I hope you'll enjoy it with me. Long live Delphi!

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Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager As I've already tweeted on Twitter, I would like to congratulate you on your new job! I've used Delphi for many years for many things, and as a Delphi developer I feel assured that its future is in safe hands!

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulations to Embarcadero, the Delphi community worldwide and to you Marco! They are very lucky and fortunate to have you! Good luck and have fun! -Lino

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Excellent news Marco. I'm sure you'll be up to this challenge. Lachlan

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulations Marco! All the best

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congrats Marco! I hope you will support a linux compiler soon! Best regards,

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Wow, congratulations, Marco! And good luck! :)

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager I'm really excited by the news, for many reasons but mainly because we needed someone with real love for Delphi. Congratulations and you can be sure that the community is very happy with your new job.

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager All the best for you at Embarcadero.

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager It is great to know that we have a Delphi user voice inside Embarcadero! Congrats from me and the Brazilian MVP team!

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Muchas Felicidades!, Enhorabuena, Congratulations!. Your last words are very important, a relaxed community, Lately we had have a lot of disturbing comments from the community, and personally i understand them, for example this last release came with less so needed features, win8 wasn't a priority, many custumers are waiting for linux or android, ORM, etc. visual livebinding is great, ti be short. Keep an eye on community and upon all keep visible the roadmap, it we'll be your key to succed.

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Muchas felicitaciones Marco, qué buena noticia! Contigo al frente de Delphi, serán muchos los avances por venir! Éxitos! :) Qué afortunados somos!

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Great news Marco, brazilian developers were so happy with the future of delphi now

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager This is excellent news for Delphi and the community! Congratulations, and I wish you great success in your new position!

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulations, Marco.

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulations. Wish you all the best. The wise bunny knows spectacular hops are always preceded by unspectacular preparation.(@bunnybuddhism)

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulation Marco. As Product Manager can you please post some comments on the following EMB -> Delphi -> Non-Technical blog: "If I were the Delphi Product Manager, I would ..." https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=79195 or can you at least tell the community what your plans are, and how much impact you have in EMB to make Delphi again a success story? Currently I am really warried about the future for Delphi.

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulations Marco, I think.... Top of my wish list.... Stability and Quality, not new features and frameworks. How about bug report 104240 for a start. That effectively stops you using 64 bit Delphi for client side applications that make use of with MidasLib. So in a client server environment, you can only make use of the 64 bit on the server side.

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Hi Marco, my congrats, after all your great Delphi support, you earned it !! IMHO, your appointment as the Delphi Product Manager is definitely the best news expected from a while by the Delphi community. Hopefully under your "Mastering wand" and with your great technical and communication skills will bring Delphi back to the developer hearts and minds. Delphi needs fresh blood ...and with the new mobile focus under RAD Mobile Studio umbrella we can expect more developers will look back into (REAL!) RAD. I also blogged about these late announcements: CodeRage 7: Day 1 Highlights - Marco Cantu is the new Delphi Product Manager, RAD Mobile Studio demoed, relevant links http://devstonez.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/coderage-7- day-1-highlights-marco-cantu-is-the-new-delphi- product-manager-rad-mobile-studio-demoed-relevant- links

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulazioni ! Un'ottima notizia per Delphi.

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager MArco... che dire complimentiiiiiiiii Non potevano scegliere uomo migliore per dare un futuro roseo a delphi... grazie per quello che fai (specialmente perchè lo fai bene....)

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congrats! This is a really bold move. What happens to Wintech Italia now though? Will it still exist as a company? Regards, A

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulations!!! It's the best news on a very long time. Although the rumour spread since last Friday, I didn't gave much attention. I hope you can give feedback on Emb to change things and make the (once greatest) RAD tool great again.

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Felicitaciones desde Colombia.

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulation to you marco, hope you can make some changes that all of delphi fans wishes since ages ago. There is one thing i know: - Communication, please be more communicative on what is going on with the community, right now, all delphi user never get any information on what will be planned on the next release until near the release date, well it is impossible to develop delphi only within a month or two before release right? so i'm pretty sure you have a release plan list, right now delphi still have a lot of bugs and IDE stability issues, at least please tell us what bugs is planned to be fixed. it is a start Well sorry for long comment, but i will send you an email if i've gathered more thought. Success to you, delphi and embarcadero Iwan

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulations Marco! Please fix as many bugs as possible and bring the same level of documentation as your books provide. Best Wishes.

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulazioni Marco!!!

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager CONGRATULATIONS Marco!!!!!! I am very happy for you e for this very great news! Best regards and good luck Claudio

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Sei l'anima di Delphi, fantastica notizia. Complimenti!

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulation Marco, this a big gain for the whole Delphi community and gives me more confidence in the future of Delphi! ;-) Regards Niels

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulation Marco, this a big gain for the whole Delphi community and gives me more confidence in the future of Delphi! ;-) Regards Niels

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulations and wish you the best. Another great improvement in the Delphi climb to the top.

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Wish you Lot of Luck & Success in a this new Adventure Marco! Compliments, B.

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulation Marco, I hope this is good news for delphi community.

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulations Marco! You have been a wonderful teacher and resource to the Delphi community for so long, I am glad you will be taking on a more official role :-)

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulation, Marco. I've used Delphi since version 1 but I've not been interested in any staff for Delphi so I didn't know who you are. Recently, I noticed that everything of Delphi is not going well. And I believe that it is time to communicate with the staff like you for the future of Delphi. Once again, all the best and congratulation!

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Felicitaciones !!, Yo he sido usuario de Delphi no solo desde sus comienzos sino incluso desde sus precursores (empecé con Turbo Pascal a mediados de los 80s). Quiero aprovechar la invitación a aportar ideas y crítica constructiva para comentar lo siguiente: Comparto el sentimiento de muchos usuarios de que Delphi ha tomado el rumbo equivocado desde hace años Son varios los aspectos; pero, en mi caso, y pienso que en el de muchos, creo que la mayor falla es el no incluir el valor agregado más importante que, a quienes tenemos versiones empresariales, nos es más significativo : El poder compilar al menos la parte de servidor en Linux. En mi país, y, hasta donde conozco, en Latinoamérica en general, a nivel empresarial, Windows domina casi la totalidad del mercado. Por ello, tener el cliente en una plataforma Linux, no es algo atractivo para el empresario, ya que los usuarios, por la falta de un buen soporte en Linux compatible con MS-Office, requieren siempre Windows y por ello, sin importar lo bueno que hagamos un programa en Linux, no pasarán a Linux. En cambio, tener la parte de servidor Web en Linux representa un ahorro de costos muy significativo para ellos, y es el principal problema que enfrentamos cuando les llevamos nuestra solución Delphi; de hecho, en lo personal, el costo del servidor ha sido argumento para que no me dieran algunos negocios Mi petición como usuario la resumo en una línea : No actualizaré mi Delphi hasta tanto no compile al menos la parte de servidor para Linux

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congratulations, Marco! As someone whose first salary was for Turbo Pascal' 1.0 project, I have deep feelings about (Borland) Pascal and Delphi. I hope you can persuade the folks over there to revive the Turbo Delphi and let younger folks (and older ones like me who do not need $xxxx development product) to keep in touch with Delphi.

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Congrats Marco in your new role at Embarcadero. I have translated below the comment posted in Spanish by Rolando. Cheers Yanniel. "Congratulations!!, I have been a Delphi user not only from its inception but even from the time of its ancestors (I began with Turbo Pascal in the middle of the 80th). I want to take advantage of your invitation in order to provide some thoughts and constructive criticism: I share the feelings of many users about Delphi taking the wrong path since many years ago. There are many aspects; but in my case, and I believe this is also the case for many others, the major failure is not include the added-value of being able to compile to Linux at least the server side code. This is the most significant aspect for those like me having business versions. In my country, and to the best of my knowledge in Latin America, Windows dominates the market in the business area. Because of that, having the client in a Linux box is not very attractive to the entrepreneur; since the users, due to the lack of a good support of MS-Office in Linux, always require Windows. Regardless of how good is our Linux application, those users won’t change to Linux. On the other hand, having the server side (Web) in Linux brings significant savings for the entrepreneurs; that’s the main problem when we offer our Delphi solution to them. As a fact, in my personal case, the server cost was the reason to lose a few business deals. My petition as a user is summarized into one line: I won’t update my Delphi IDE until it is able to compile to Linux at least the server side." Comment by Rolando on November 18, 13:38

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Lo importante es que Delphi vualva a ser el mejor lenguaje de programacion tanto para Win, Mac y Linux y posibilidade de crear apliaciones Web sin mucho esfuerzo sin perder la escencia de Delphi. La verdad estamos a punto de dejar este gran Lenguaje de Programacion que nos dio muy buenas satisfacciones desde la version 2.0 hasta la version 2010. Felicidades !!! esperamos noticias Gustavo Diego Ochoa Paniagua La Paz - Bolivia

Joining Embarcadero as Delphi Product Manager Muchas Felicidades Marco por este nuevo proyecto y esperamos que Delphi nos de grandes sorpresas y este en todos los sistemas operativos. Saludos Juan Rendón Mazatlán México.





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