IDERA, Inc. Acquires Sencha to Strengthen Developer Tools Business

IDERA, Inc. Acquires Sencha to Strengthen Developer Tools Business

IDERA, Inc., the leading provider of database, development, and test management tools, today announced an agreement to acquire Sencha, a leading web application development platform. Sencha will be integrated with Embarcadero, IDERA, Inc.’s developer tools division.

The press release can be view at BusinessWire about this purchase in detail.  Now the question is what will happen with moving this product into the Embarcadero Developer product line ?   How does this affect the Rad Studio products that deal with the enterprise ?

Sencha provides software tools to build web applications across desktops, tablets and smartphones.  How will this work with FireMonkey is the real question.  The pricing structure for Sencha is extremely high for up to 5 developers.

Atanas Popov has been quoted “Sencha matches our mission to deliver agile development tools to our growing global community of developers,” said Atanas Popov, General Manager of Embarcadero. “It broadens the languages we support by adding JavaScript, and delivers broad synergies with our existing product portfolio. For example, Sencha Ext JS will provide a powerful Web Framework for Embarcadero’s RAD Studio to complement our native frameworks, including VCL for Windows and FMX for Mobile.”

Embarcadero has recently added CData support tools to allow access for VCL and FMX applications to use. So the idea of allowing Ext JS to have a IDE plug-in is not far off since it does have Visual Studio support.  What does this mean for other software products such as Elevate Software Web Development, no one knows.  This is a pretty major step so now let’s see what happens in the near future.  Based on Idera’s track record this will be a long term project to get all members on the same page.