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2008年5月7日，一家Thoma Cressey Bravo下的公司Embarcadero Technologies，今天宣布他们已经签署了一份对Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL) 的资产收购协议收购其旗下的CodeGear公司。交易将会在30-60天内结束。公司合并后，将会在Embarcadero Technologies名下运作。
Thoma Cressey Bravo的合伙人Orlando Bravo说：“应用程序和数据库开发正在降温，这两家公司的协作是非常及时且合理的。”
Jim Douglas， CodeGear的CEO说：“今天的宣布对于我们CodeGear的客户、员工、合作伙伴和社区来说，是一个好消息。我们可以将资源更集中的专注在我们的核心产品和市场上”。
整个收购额大约在2300万美元，而Borland将继续拥有CodeGear大约700万的未收账款的权力。
* 1983: Borland International founded by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn (CEO)
* 1983: Turbo Pascal v1.0 released ($49.99)
* 1984: SideKick launched
* 1986: Taken public on London’s Unlisted Securities Market (USM)
* 1987: Borland Announces Turbo C v1.0
* 1988: Turbo Pascal v5.0 ships with integrated debugger and dynamic memory manager
* 1988: Turbo C v2.0 ships with integrated debugger
* 1988: Turbo Assembler, Turbo Debugger, and Turbo Profiler v1.0 are released
* 1989: US IPO on NASDAQ, Quattro Pro spreadsheet launched
* 1990: Borland Announces Turbo Pascal v5.5 (with objects) and Turbo Debugger v1.5
* 1990: Borland Ships Turbo C++ v1.0
* 1991: Borland Ships Turbo C++ and Turbo Vision
* 1991: Turbo Pascal for Windows v1.0 with Object Windows Library
* 1991: Acquisition of Ashton-Tate is completed
* 1992: Borland C++ v3.1 is released with Object Windows Library
* 1992: Borland C++ for OS/2 ships
* 1994: Borland Announces Interbase 4.0
* 1995: Delphi v1.0 is launched on Valentine’s Day
* 1995: Borland includes Java plug-ins within Borland C++ 5.0
* 1996: Delphi v2.0 is released - first 32-bit version of Delphi, support for Windows 95
* 1997: JBuilder v1.0 is launched
* 1997: C++Builder v1.0 is released
* 1998: Acquisition of Visigenic is completed
* 1998: Name of company changed to Inprise (Integrating the Enterprise)
* 2000: JBuilder v3.5 is released - first all Java version of JBuilder IDE
* 2001: Name of company changed to Borland Software Corporation
* 2002: Borland Completes Merger with Starbase and Galaxy Acquisition Corp - StarTeam and CaliberRM
* 2003: Delphi for .NET ships - first Delphi version to support .NET v1.0
* 2003: Borland Acquires TogetherSoft
* 2006: Announced Developer Tools Group would become a wholly-owned subsidiary CodeGear; Acquired Segue Software with its base of testing products
* 2006: JBuilder 2007 is released, first JBuilder built using the Eclipse framework
* 2007: Delphi for PHP v1.0 ships - CodeGear’s first PHP IDE, includes the VCL for PHP component library
* 2007: 3rdRail v1.0 is released - CodeGear’s first Ruby on Rails IDE
* 2008: Delphi/400 is released - Delphi and Delphi for PHP RAD/Visual connectivity to IBM Series i (AS/400) computer systems
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发表于 2008-5-7 21:18:00