from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Borland Software Corporation
Borland International, Inc.
<company> A company that sells a variety of {PC} software
development and {database} systems. Borland was founded in
1983 and initially became famous for their low-cost software,
particularly {Turbo Pascal}, {Turbo C}, and {Turbo Prolog}.
Current and past products include the {Borland C++} C++ and C
developement environment, the {Paradox} and {dBASE}
{databases}, {Delphi}, {JBuilder}, and {InterBase}.
Borland has approximately 1000 employees worldwide and has
operations in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan,
Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
Borland sold {Quattro} Pro to {Novell} in 1994 for $100M.
Novell later sold the product to {Corel Corporation}, who also
bought {Paradox}. dBASE was sold in March(?) 1999 to {dBase
Inc.}
In Febuary 1998 Borland bought {Visigenic Software, Inc.}.
The company changed its name to Inprise Corporation on
1998-04-29 and then on 2000-11-14 they announced they were
changing it back to Borland from the first quarter of 2001.
Quarterly sales $69M, profits $61M (Aug 1994).
$56M, $6.4M (July 2001)
(http://borland.com/).
Headquarters: 100 Borland Way, Scotts Valley, CA, 95066, USA.
Telephone: +1 (408) 431 1000.
(2002-03-16)