A few nice G+ threads on Castalia and Usertility being acquired by Embarcadero, and Jacob Thurman staying active on them
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/21
Uwe Raabe was the first one to suggest that it might just be so that Castalia got acquired by Embarcadero. In the thread rumoured Usertility might as well been, or that Jacob Thurman might be responsible for IDE stability.
So today
- Uwe Raabe confirmed it (in a private post) by pointing to an article on dbta.com (database trends and applications, go figure!),
- Jacob Thurman confirmed the acquisition of Castalia and Usertitlity in the first thread where people started asking for more explanation.
- Marco Cantù posted on this in his blog confirmed it too, causing a nice thread on IDE stability (we all need that as we depend on it; 3rd parties can provide and libraries, only Embarcadero and Andy can fix bugs) and ToolsAPI exposure (especially on the language parser side).
- Speaking of which: a nice post on open array parameters, where you can pass an element which gets interpreted as an array. None of the parsers get this right, but the compiler does.
- David Millington also pointed to the dbta article, which spun a nice thread on how to register hotkeys in the IDE.
- Jacob Thurman posted a blog article.
These seem to be the hard facts:
- Castalia and Usertility are now owned by Embarcadero
- Jacob Thurman keeps involved but it is unclear if he is employed by Embarcadero
–jeroen
Warren Postma said
Good news!
David M said
Update on his employment: in Uwe Raabe’s thread, Jacob writes, “Technically a contractor, not employee, but the end result is that I’m working for Embarcadero on making RAD Studio really awesome.”
jpluimers said
Thanks!