Embarcadero Technologies
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| Type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Founded | San Francisco, USA (1993) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, USA |
| Key people | Wayne D. Williams, Chief Executive Officer |
| Industry | Database administration tools, Software development |
| Products | DBArtisan, Rapid SQL, Change Manager, ER/Studio, Performance Center etc. |
| Revenue |  60M $ (2006) |
| Employees | 270 |
| Website | embarcadero.com[1] |
Embarcadero Technologies is an American software company founded in October 1993 by Stephen Wong and Stuart Browning with just a single database tool for Sybase DBAs — Rapid SQL (released in December the same year).[1] [2] [3] It currently produces tools for database design, development and management, for platforms including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Sybase and MySQL.
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[edit] History
In April 2000, Embarcadero Technologies was listed on NASDAQ. In November the same year, the company acquired GDPro, a UML design solution provider. In October 2005, a data security solution provider, Ambeo, was acquired. Two years later, in June 2007, Thoma Cressey Bravo bought Embarcadero and it became a private company. Wayne Williams was appointed chief executive officer of Embarcadero Technologies in 2007.
The company headquarters are in San Francisco with other offices in Toronto, Melbourne, Munich, Maidenhead (United Kingdom)[4] and Iaşi (Romania). The company currently has an annual revenue of $US 60 million and has more than 270 employees.
On May 7th 2008 an announcement by Borland was released stating that its IDE subsidiary, CodeGear, is to be sold to Embarcadero Technologies for an expected $23 million price and $7 million in CodeGear accounts receivables retained by Borland. [5]
[edit] Products
Since its foundation, Embarcadero Technologies has released several database-related products, such as: Rapid SQL (in December 1993)[6], DBArtisan (in April 1994), ER/Studio (in March 1996), Change Manager (in March 1999), Performance Center (in March 2001), DT/Studio (in December 2001), Schema Examiner (in October 2006), EA/Studio (in March 2007)[7], and PowerSQL (in March 2008) [8]. It currently offers database tools that share a cross-platform foundation and cover the database life cycle. [9]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Embarcadero Technologies finding from Embarcadero.com
- ^ Stephen Wong listed as Co-founder from allbusiness.com
- ^ Stuart Browning listed as co-founder from en.wikipedia.org
- ^ List of Embarcadero Technologies offices from Embarcadero.com
- ^ Silicon Valley Technology News, Embarcadero Technologies buys CodeGear
- ^ Embarcadero Technologies finding from Embarcadero.com
- ^ EA/Studio product release from Goliath
- ^ Newswire, PowerSQL product release
- ^ Embarcadero Technologies About Us section from Embarcadero.com
