[fpc-other] Delphi's Spain branch closure

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Hi Victor

[Moved reply to fpc-other]

It seems Allen's G+ post has been deleted... I wonder why. ;-) From the
post you quoted, that is a *massive* blow to the Delphi product.

I see Delphi is going the way of Kylix. Long live Free Pascal!

Regards,
  Graeme

On 2016-06-27 15:17, Victor Campillo wrote:
> On 27/06/16 15:47, Michael Ring wrote:
>>
>> Most likely that Embarcadero has shut down their development Branch in 
>> Spain, about 80 people involved.
>>
>> Michael
>>
> 
> When I read the news this morning I was astonished, I didn't know that 
> Embarcadero had such a big team in Spain (I am Spanish). In the group of 
> G+ there is a comment of Allen Bauer that explains which parts of Delphi 
> were developed in this office.
> 
>> Allen Bauer <https://plus.google.com/100304918684466464396>+47
>> The Spain office had taken on most of the IDE, Delphi RTL, GetIT, 
>> Installer, some DB, Bluetooth components, IoT, QA, and other 
>> miscellaneous tasks. They were by-far the largest single group working 
>> on RAD Studio. They were all a wonderful, dedicated, excited group of 
>> folks. They were eager to learn and truly enjoyed their jobs. I am 
>> deeply saddened by this development.
>>
>> Not unexpected given what I know about the new owners', ahem, decided 
>> lack of understanding how a dev-tool should be developed and 
>> managed... In fact, how software in general should be developed.
>>
>> Gosh... I wonder why I left...
> 
> 
> Best Regards.