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The article has one false assumption, "that IDERA is a company that focuses on SQL & other IT performance tools". It's not. They started focusing on developer tools in 2015, acquiring Embarcadero (Delphi and C++Builder.)

Disclosure: I work there. So I know that they are more than the article says ;)

I personally would suggest waiting and seeing what happens. Usually when there is an acquisition it is a good opportunity to correct mistakes the previous owner made. I'd suggest the author of this article actually contact Idera, let them know his thoughts, rather than posting a blog only. There are real people at the company and they'll read feedback, and now is a good time.

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There's a dead comment below yours that says "IDERA fired the entire Ext JS dev team yesterday" -- is that true or false? Why was it downvoted to oblivion?

Edit: apparently it's true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15366051

I imagine because there was no source to back up the claim. There's definitely been an exodus of staff from the company in recent days, but it's not clear what the terms were. For some tweets from former Sencha staff who have departed over the past few days see my comment on another thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15365797

Edit: It certainly looks as though the entire team was let go based on the LinkedIn post you linked to in your edit.

truthlaidbear is shadowbanned...

This exchange is pretty much what it felt like to be in the ExtJS community after jack slocum exited. The sencha people would make grand claims about the amazing things they would do for the community, then do essentially the opposite, and afterwards remain mute to all criticism. Nice to see that the Idera acquisition hasn’t changed anything.

> it felt like to be in the ExtJS community after jack slocum exited

I've to admit that, on some rather rare occasions, I'm thinking about Jack Slocum and how he gave away/was taken away that thing that once was a truely remarkable, changeing lib for js, at least if you take into account when extjs was released. And I wonder what would have happen to him if he invented something like extjs in our venture capital and crowdfounding times.

Oh those were pretty venture capital times as well.

if anyone of the people let go is interested in remote work (we're based in Europe) on an Ext project please get in touch at https://www.paymoapp.com/contact/

> "There's a dead comment below yours ... is that true or false?"

I do not know. I don't work in that part and couldn't comment if I did. I'm only commenting to point out that Idera does indeed focus on dev tools, where the article thought it didn't. FWIW, Delphi and C++Builder are still going strong under Idera.

This is IDERA's way of operating. They're doing the same to Delphi. I've talked to the Delphi product manager about this. He said their way of doing things is to hire contractors on a (mostly) per-bug or per-feature basis, rather than having the people in-house as employees.

We'll see how that turns out.

@truthlaidbear you're shadowbanned

IDERA fired the entire Ext JS dev team yesterday.

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