Borland opens its Sanctuary database partially on BDN

If you have been using Borland products during the past few years, you must have noticed that most of the their products now require activation, usually through the Internet.

Now, all these activations and registrations go to one large database, that is called Sanctuary internally. Since I'm working for a Borland reseller, I often need to requiest somebody from Borland to open up more registrations for our customers, for example because they need to install Delphi into another machine, or move InterBase to a more powerful server, etc.

However, the problem has been that this database is internal to Borland, and nobody outside can access it. But today, this changed as BDN (Borland Developer Network) opened a new account service that has a button to view "My Registered Products". This lists shows the public information in the Sanctuary database associated with your e-mail address. Take a look, it's a great addition to the site!