eBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bn

Venkatesh VT

Delphi Developer

eBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bn

2005-09-12 04:59:31 PM
delphi164
It is nice to know that a Delphi product company is being bought for an
hefty sum
This is good for Delphi growth
See the story at
www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php
Venkatesh

Jan Derk

Delphi Developer

2005-09-12 07:10:39 PM

Re:eBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bn

Venkatesh VT writes:

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It is nice to know that a Delphi product company is being bought for
an hefty sum
This is good for Delphi growth
See the story at
www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php
For less than 10% of that amount they could buy Borland and provide

Danny Thorpe with the resources to create a new native VCL that
supports Unicode on win32 & 64 ;)
Jan Derk

Alvaro GP [TeamA]

Delphi Developer

2005-09-12 07:56:01 PM

Re:eBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bn

Jan Derk writes:

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For less than 10% of that amount they could buy Borland and provide
Danny Thorpe with the resources to create a new native VCL that
supports Unicode on win32 & 64 ;)
LOL! that is so true :) But I guess that Microsoft wouldn't let that

happen.

Abdullah Kauchali

Delphi Developer

2005-09-12 08:34:28 PM

Re:eBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bn

Venkatesh VT writes:

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It is nice to know that a Delphi product company is being bought for an
hefty sum
This is good for Delphi growth
See the story at
www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php
Venkatesh
/Jislaik/ ... how about that! $4.1 bln ... :)

(Someone's got a thread running here about famous Delphi people ...
The Skype guys ought to be there first, no?)

Abdullah Kauchali

Delphi Developer

2005-09-13 02:50:45 PM

Re:eBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bn

Just watched BBC Business, the amount is more like $1.4 bln,
not 4.1 ... :) ... ah well ...
"What can you do with $4.1 bln that you can not do with $1.4 bln?",
to paraphrase Sean Connery in /Entrapment/.

Anders Ohlsson (Borland)

Delphi Developer

2005-09-13 03:47:52 PM

Re:eBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bn

Read it again...
money.cnn.com/2005/09/12/technology/ebay_skype.reut/index.htm
www.skype.com/company/news/2005/skype_ebay.html

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Just watched BBC Business, the amount is more like $1.4 bln,
not 4.1 ... :) ... ah well ...
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Abdullah Kauchali

Delphi Developer

2005-09-13 04:01:53 PM

Re:eBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bn

Anders Ohlsson (Borland) writes:

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Read it again...

money.cnn.com/2005/09/12/technology/ebay_skype.reut/index.htm

www.skype.com/company/news/2005/skype_ebay.html
Thanks, I just read the same report. I think the BBC misreported - or

perhaps they mentioned a "part" of the total deal.

Oliver Townshend

Delphi Developer

2005-09-13 04:54:12 PM

Re:eBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bn

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(Someone's got a thread running here about famous Delphi people ...
The Skype guys ought to be there first, no?)
I believe ColdFusion was orginally written in Delphi.

Oliver Townshend

Craig Stuntz [TeamB]

Delphi Developer

2005-09-13 08:50:07 PM

Re:eBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bn

Oliver Townshend writes:

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>(Someone's got a thread running here about famous Delphi people ...
>The Skype guys ought to be there first, no?)

I believe ColdFusion was orginally written in Delphi.
HomeSite was/is. I don't think ColdFusion was.

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Kevin Berry

Delphi Developer

2005-09-20 05:15:58 AM

Re:eBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bn

Craig Stuntz [TeamB] writes:

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HomeSite was/is. I don't think ColdFusion was.
AFAIK, Cold Fusion Studio (the IDE) was/is written in Delphi because it

was based on Homesite.
Cheers,
Kevin.

Jason Southwell

Delphi Developer

2005-09-20 05:42:19 AM

Re:eBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bn

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AFAIK, Cold Fusion Studio (the IDE) was/is written in Delphi because
it was based on Homesite.
Cold Fusion was out well before Macromedia purchased Homesite.

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Kevin Berry

Delphi Developer

2005-09-20 06:14:52 AM

Re:eBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bn

Jason Southwell writes:

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>AFAIK, Cold Fusion Studio (the IDE) was/is written in Delphi because
>it was based on Homesite.

Cold Fusion was out well before Macromedia purchased Homesite.
Yes, but that doesn't mean that a later version of the IDE wasn't based

on Homesite. I am not sure whether the prior versions of CF even had an
IDE- it may simply have been notepad... don't know, never used it!
Here's one reference but I am sure there are other better ones that refer
to CFS being based on Homesite. AFAICR, Nick Bradbury even confirmed
that Macromedia was still using the Homesite code-base for their CFS
product.
www.intranetjournal.com/reviews/cfstudio.shtml
Cheers,
Kevin.

Craig Stuntz [TeamB]

Delphi Developer

2005-09-20 08:06:40 PM

Re:eBay to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bn

Kevin Berry writes:

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Craig Stuntz [TeamB] writes:
>HomeSite was/is. I don't think ColdFusion was.

AFAIK, Cold Fusion Studio (the IDE) was/is written in Delphi because
it was based on Homesite.
Yes, Cold Fusion and Cold Fusion Studio are two different products.

Cold Fusion Studio and Homesite are closely related.
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