the original IDEs [integrated creation of application fac- there is an explicit off- prise domain during 2008.
development environ- tories, repositories of truly setting opex [operational Our focusinthis market isto
ments], which, by the way, reusable software assets expenditure] cost [in hard be a thought and technology
we invented. They enabled than can effectively be lev- dollars and time] associ- leader, helping the nascent
aprofound improvement in eraged across an organiza- ated with integration. market develop quickly. On
productivity. tion. You’ll see us apply this We provide the neces- the PHP front, look for an
Some years later, IDEs concept of application facto- sary integration, coupled interesting new release from
were deemed commodi- ries in products we will be with proprietary technol- CodeGear early in 2008.
ties, and productivity launching in 2008. ogy in areas that are not
improvement was thought well served by the com- Web 2.0 is a much-hyped
to have peaked. Along How important is Eclipse in mercial or open-source buzzword these days. What’s
came component-based CodeGear’s overall strategy markets, to deliver an your view of Web 2.0, and
design and visualization. or scheme of things? industrial-strength devel- what is CodeGear doing
Once again, a mean- Open source in general opment environment. there?
ingful improvement in is an important part of Eclipse is a very impor- Much hyped and one
productivity was enabled our strategy. The advent tant part of that formula. of the most ambiguous
by new innovations. The terms. Ask 10 people
methodology behind appli- what it means, and you’ll
cation factories represents get at least five different
the next wave. answers. Some will give
A common theme you you a market-focused view
typically observe with CodeGear in focus [i.e., social networking as a
innovations in designs that business platform]; others
Though an independent company for only a year, CodeGear has
lead to major productivity been a player in application development for more than 25 years. will give you a technology-
improvement, whether it Formed from the Developer Tools Division of Borland, based view [i.e., AJAX, or
be software, electrical or CodeGear was spun off as an independent organization in Asynchronous JavaScript
mechanical design, is a November 2006 and XML].
practical leap in abstrac- It has more than 3. 2 million users in 29 countries and more We tend to think of
than 130 partners worldwide
tion. This approach will Web 2.0 more in technol-
Created the first commercial IDE, the first pure Java IDE, the
enable such a practical first IDE for C++, the first J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise ogy terms ... given that our
leap in design abstraction, Edition)-compliant IDE and the first RAD IDE for Linux; was the team is a bunch of hard-
enabling developers to think first company to have SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) core developers.
Web services support in the IDE, the language and the run-time
at the application level first. library across multiple popular programming languages If you look at the block-
In addition, this approach Offers tools for Java, Windows and .Net developers ing and tackling compo-
will help address one of nents that most people
Source: Forrester Research
the biggest issues facing include in a Web 2.0 defi-
companies today: efficient of open source has been The Eclipse framework nition, we have incorpo-
knowledge transfer. like a tsunami. It hit the provides a solid founda- rated these technologies
Companies struggle to markethardandkeeps on tion for delivering this into our products. For
harness intellectual capi- building force. value proposition. example, we have AJAX
tal due to changing proj- We are big advocates of libraries available in all
ect teams, organizational open source but think mar- In 2007, CodeGear made our key products, either
churn, turnover, and the ket expectation for the ease moves into tools for dynamic homegrown, third party
necessity for distributed of adopting and leveraging languages such as PHP and or open source.
development. By captur- open-source components Rails. What are some of the One of the things that is
ing logic and intent in the has been set too high . other innovations we can of real interest to me is how
application, companies will Open-source components expect from you in 2008? we can facilitate the use of
be able to make significant are developed disparately. We continue to be very some Web 2.0 technologies
improvements [to] how they Although you might save excited about the evolution to radically change the user
leverage knowledge across capex [capital expenditure] of the Ruby on Rails market experience in traditional
their organizations. costs by highly leveraging and expect to see ROR begin desktop, client server and
The result will be the open-source components, to make inroads in the enter- enterprise apps. ´
