on february 8, 2006 borland announced that it was looking for a buyer for its ide and database line of products, including delphi, to concentrate on its alm line. on november 14, 2006 borland transferred the development tools group to an independent subsidiary company named codegear, instead of selling it. borland subsequently sold codegear to embarcadero technologies in 2008. embarcadero retained the codegear division created by borland to identify its tool and database offerings, but identified its own database tools under the databasegear name. in 2015, embarcadero was purchased by idera software, but the embarcadero mark was retained for the developer tools division.