20Jun 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Francisco Partners and Elliott Management announce definitive agreement to acquire Dell Software Group

Software Events
  <h2>On Monday (June 20th, 2016), Francisco Partners and Elliott Management announced they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Dell Software Group. This transaction includes Dell’s Statistica, Systems and Information Management and Security business units.</h2> Dell will remain a significant reseller and partner of our world class technologies, but at this time we feel that creating a software specific business as an independent company represents the best possible option to accelerate the growth of the business units and to serve our employees, customers and partners. This represents a significant change for our business but one we are excited about. Francisco Partners and Elliott Management have a long history of driving innovation and growth of its partner companies. Statistica will stay focused on the path of delivering value for our customers and partners with…
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20Jun 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

FixInsight joins TMS Software!

Rad Studio Delphi Development, Software development Concepts, Software Events, Software Releases
FixInsight joins TMS Software TMS is a company with main office in Belgium and offices in Brazil and Uruguay. The company TMS was founded in 1995 by Bruno Fierens to focus on the development of components for a Delphi IDE for all kinds of technical areas and now they have announced that they will include FixInsight into the TMS realm. FixInsight seamlessly integrates into your Delphi IDE and outputs its messages in the familiar Messages window. You can integrate FixInsight (Pro version only) with your build process using the command-line tool and have several options that will let you run analysis automatically during the build process. Baron Software have used FixInsight from the first version and the analysis that is performed on possible coding issues reduces the overall software support…
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11Mar 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Apple news that may be announced on March 21

Software Events
Apple news that may be announced on March 21   Apple is preparing to make the annual product announcements on March 21st, 2016.  High expectations are there for newer geek toys from one of the favorite vendors which is apple.  Some of the possible noted things are: New iPhone 5se Headlining the event will be the 4-inch iPhone SE and a new 9.7-inch iPad. Rumors suggest the iPhone SE will look nearly identical to the iPhone 5s, but it will include new internal hardware that brings it in line with newer Apple devices. It is rumored to have an A9 chip, an improved camera, and NFC support for use with Apple Pay. New Apple Air 3. The new 9.7-inch iPad has been referred to as the iPad Air 3, but it may…
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09Mar 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Embarcadero Announces Strategy and Product future

Rad Studio Delphi Development, Software development Concepts, Software Events
Embarcadero Announces Dedicated Business Developer Strategy and Product Future With the web site refreshed it seems that Idera is starting to make the right moves on getting Delphi / C++ Builder back into the arena.  Rad Studio provides the highest level of mobile, database, web server, Windows application development all in one package.  The 2016 product roadmap also will be bringing the ability to create Linux applications on the server which is a step to go against the Microsoft Visual Studio product line. At the moment there are over 3 million Delphi users through out the world and that is a fantastic step towards the product update that will be occurring soon.  You can also read additional information by clicking on the embarcadero emblem to view the feedback concerning the…
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08Mar 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is coming to Linux

Software development Concepts, Software Events, Software Releases, SQL Tips
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is coming to Linux will provide the ability for users to have the features and additional security. Click the image for more information about SQL Server Microsoft will be releasing a version of their SQL Server 2016 for Linux which is a major step in the world domination plan.  With about 35 percent of the web servers in the world using Linux as their operating system this will open new revenue streams for Microsoft. As you can see from the grid below the percentages of SQL Servers within companies.  The area where MySQL rules is on the web server which puts both at about 35 percent each on market share.  If Microsoft begins the move towards Linux the development tools will be released shortly.  What this…
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