<
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)