Developer Christmas Countdown - December 11 - T minus 14 days

December 11 - Special promotions expire in 20 days!  Database Tools for Major DBMS Platforms.

It's getting exciting around here.  There are only weeks until Christmas Day.  Next week, I will don my Santa suit and appear in our San Francisco and Scotts Valley offices.  Also, there are only 20 more days until all of Embarcadero's year end special promotions are over.  We have special promotion pricing for you to upgrade your developer tools.  When you upgrade or buy new licenses, you also get your choice of another Embarcadero product.  We have also revamped our database tool pages to help you easily see how we support the major SQL databases.

Extra Savings on RAD XE Professional Upgrades for Version 2010 Users

For a limited time, registered users of Delphi 2010, C++Builder 2010 and RAD Studio 2010 qualify for an additional upgrade discount of up to 20% when moving up to Delphi XE Professional, C++Builder XE Professional or RAD Studio XE Professional. That's total savings of up to 55% off the new user price. Offer ends December 31, 2010.  It's time to move from 2010 to XE.  Check our the offer at http://www.embarcadero.com/radoffer.

Last chance for upgrade pricing from v2006 to XE

Attention users of Delphi 2006, C++Builder 2006 and Borland Developer Studio 2006 - You're eligible for upgrade pricing on the all-new Delphi XE, C++Builder XE and RAD Studio XE versions but only through December 31, 2010. After that, you'll no longer qualify for upgrade pricing and if you want to move to XE or future versions you'll have to pay the full new user price.  Upgrade now to take advantage of upgrade pricing and save 35%-45% off the new user pricing that you will have to pay if you upgrade in 2011 or later.  You will find all the details at http://www.embarcadero.com/rad-in-action/migration-upgrade-center

Buy One Tool, Get a Second Tool FREE!

Embarcadero is making it easier and more affordable to be more productive. Because for a limited time, with each qualifying Embarcadero product you buy, you can choose a second Embarcadero product of equal or lesser value—FREE!  That’s right. Buy virtually any one of Embarcadero’s award-winning rapid application development or SQL database tools, and get a second tool of your choosing free.  Check out your purchase and BOGO options at http://www.embarcadero.com/bogo-info

Embarcadero’s Database Tools Provide Deep, Native Support for Major DBMS Platforms.

Embarcadero’s family of databtase tools make it easier for you to design, build, manage, monitor, and tune all your Oracle databases. Since 1993, Embarcadero has been the trusted tooling provider to thousands of Oracle customers. In fact, key members of Embarcadero's own products team help build Oracle Enterprise Manager.  Learn more at http://www.embarcadero.com/solutions/oracle. 

If you are using Microsoft SQL server, our database tools make it easier for you to design, build, manage, monitor, and tune all your SQL Server databases. Since 1993, Embarcadero has been the trusted tooling provider to thousands of SQL Server customers. Learn more at http://www.embarcadero.com/solutions/microsoft-sql-server.

Using Sybase databases?  Since 1993, Embarcadero has been the trusted tooling provider to thousands of Sybase customers. In fact, in a recent survey of International Sybase User Group (ISUG) members, Embarcadero was selected as their number one database tooling provider.  Our database tools make it easier for you to design, build, manage, monitor, and tune all your Sybase ASE databases.  Learn more at http://www.embarcadero.com/solutions/sybase.

If you have IBM DB2 LUW and/or IBM DB2 z/OS in your datacenter, our tools make it easier for you to design, build, manage, monitor, and tune your DB2 for LUW and z/OS databases.  Since 1993, Embarcadero has been the trusted tooling provider to thousands of DB2 customers. This support dates back to DB2 V5, over 12 years ago.  And for those that need to manage both DB2 for LUW and DB2 for z/OS, many of our tools provide this capability from a single interface.  Learn more about our IBM DB2 LUW database tools at http://www.embarcadero.com/solutions/ibm-db2-for-luw.  Information about our database tools for IBM DB2 z/OS can be found at http://www.embarcadero.com/solutions/ibm-db2-for-z-os.


Cool sites for Developers

• RegexBuddy - Learn, Create, Understand, Test, Use and Save Regular Expressions -
  http://www.regexbuddy.com/


• Delphi Basics - http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/index.html


• Creating a TinyUrl from Delphi - http://theroadtodelphi.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/creating-a-tinyurl-from-delphi/


• Delphi3000 - Delphi knowledge exchange community - http://www.delphi3000.com/


• while true do; - Daniele Teti's blog programming blog - http://www.danieleteti.it/


• The Delphi Geek - http://www.thedelphigeek.com/


• StackOverflow Delphi Feed - http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/delphi


• StackOverflow C++Builder Feed - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%2b%2bbuilder


• StackOverflow RadStudio Feed - http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=RadStudio


• Slashdot Developer News - http://developers.slashdot.org/


• Delphi Twibe Tweets - http://www.twibes.com/group/delphi/tweets.rss

Happy Weekend!