Was (wer) ist Borland International - definition
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Borland Software Corporation
<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)
Wikipedia
Borland
Borland Software Corporation was a computer technology company founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn. Its main business was the development and sale of software development and software deployment products. Borland was first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, then in Cupertino, California, and then in Austin, Texas. In 2009 the company became a full subsidiary of the British firm Micro Focus International plc.
