Quest Software was acquired by Dell in September 2012, he continued to work on XACML authorization technologies under the title of Authorization Architect. He lived on a small farm in the Santa Cruz mountains in Ben Lomond, California, which burned to the ground during the August 2020 CZU Lightning Complex fires. He and his wife, Cindy Fairhurst-Thorpe, had just purchased land in Oregon to retire to, and after the fires, moved there. Danny contracted brain cancer in 2017, and died on 22 Oct 2021 after a protracted battle. He is survived by his wife. Published work Delphi Component Design, Addison-Wesley Longman, , 1997 References External links Personal blog and homepage (defunct) archive.org from 2021-08-08 Previous blog at Microsoft Previous personal homepage at Borland Living people Microsoft employees Borland employees Google employees Year of birth missing (living people)