{"id":2376,"date":"2015-10-09T15:54:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T03:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2015-10-09T15:54:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T03:54:21","slug":"official-idera-to-acquire-embarcadero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/2376\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Idera to Acquire Embarcadero"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

The recently sign-posted potential acquisition of Embarcadero by Idera has now been officially confirmed by a press release from Idera, as reported by The Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What is starkly apparent in the press release<\/a> is the extent to which neither the Idera nor the Embarcadero commentary make any reference to development tools. In fact, in the press release as a whole the fact that development tools were involved receives only a brief mention by way of introducing Embarcadero.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, the focus is very much on the database tools; Even to the extent of what appears to be an attempt at some pseudo-SQL in the title of the press release itself!<\/p>\n

The Idera quotes do<\/em> make reference to an expansion into “application performance<\/em>“, rather than “application development<\/em>” which may be a reference to the AppAnalytics<\/a> technology, which would be a good fit alongside their database performance monitoring tools. The portfolio of Embarcadero’s database products are also more tilted toward heterogenous database change and development versus Idera’s existing range of SQL Server centric performance monitoring and management. So again, what may be considered a natural and complimentary fit.<\/p>\n

Whither the Development Tools <\/h2>\n

Some have expressed a view that the fact that Embarcadero were considered a target for acquisition is in some way a positive indication of the value of Delphi<\/a>. Unfortunately I don’t see that this necessarily follows at all.<\/p>\n

A purchaser with a strong interest in the much larger and more valuable database tools business may very well simply have been obliged<\/em> to take the development tools as part of the “job lot” since if that development tools business is not viable on its own then the vendor would be unlikely to agree to retaining it or attempting to trying to find another purchaser to take it off their hands.<\/p>\n

We simply don’t know the terms of the transaction or how the development tools were valued and based on the press release (which so far is all we have to go on) it has to be said that where they lie in the landscape and what the future holds for them remains, at best, somewhat unclear at this stage. imho.<\/p>\n

Interesting times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span> The recently sign-posted potential acquisition of Embarcadero by Idera has now been officially confirmed by a press release from Idera, as reported by The Register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[292,297],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-Ck","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2366,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/2366\/","url_meta":{"origin":2376,"position":0},"title":"I’ve Got a Great Ide(r)a – Let’s Buy Embarcadero!","date":"22 Sep 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The murky (and let's face it usually quite tedious) world of high corporate finance turned up an interesing tid-bit yesterday on reuters, in the form of a potential acquisition of a little outfit called Embarcadero by Idera. 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