23 Facts About Borland

Borland Software Corporation was a computer technology company founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn.

Borland was first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, then in Cupertino, California and then in Austin, Texas.

Main shareholders at the incorporation of Borland were Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad, and Kahn.

In 1985 Borland acquired Analytica and its Reflex database product.

In 1987 Borland purchased Wizard Systems and incorporated portions of the Wizard C technology into Turbo C Bob Jervis, the author of Wizard C became a Borland employee.

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In September 1991 Borland purchased Ashton-Tate, bringing the dBASE and InterBase databases to the house, in an all-stock transaction.

Borland survived as a company, but no longer dominated the software tools that it once had.

Borland had an internal project to clone dBASE which was intended to run on Windows and was part of the strategy of the acquisition, but by late 1992 this was abandoned due to technical flaws and the company had to constitute a replacement team headed by Bill Turpin to redo the job.

Borland had done an excellent job marketing to those with a highly technical bent.

In 1993 Borland explored ties with WordPerfect as a possible way to form a suite of programs to rival Microsoft's nascent integration strategy.

In October 1994, Borland sold Quattro Pro and rights to sell up to million copies of Paradox to Novell for $140 million in cash, repositioning the company on its core software development tools and the Interbase database engine and shifting toward client-server scenarios in corporate applications.

Philippe Kahn and the Borland board disagreed on how to focus the company, and Kahn resigned as chairman, CEO and president, after 12 years, in January 1995.

Borland named Gary Wetsel as CEO, but he resigned in July 1996.

In 1996 Borland acquired Open Environment Corporation, a Cambridge-based company founded by John J Donovan.

In 1997, Borland sold Paradox to Corel, but retained all development rights for the core BDE.

In November 1997, Borland acquired Visigenic, a middleware company that was focused on implementations of CORBA.

Several years Borland suffered from serious financial losses and poor public image.

Borland stopped open-source releases of InterBase and has developed and sold new versions at a fast pace.

In late 2002 Borland purchased design tool vendor TogetherSoft and tool publisher Starbase, makers of the StarTeam configuration management tool and the CaliberRM requirements management tool.

In early 2007 Borland announced new branding for its focus around open application life-cycle management.

Borland hired a marketing firm Lexicon Branding to come up with a new name for the company.

Frank Borland appeared in Turbo Tutor - A Turbo Pascal Tutorial, Borland JBuilder 2.

Live action version of Frank Borland was made after Micro Focus plc had acquired Borland Software Corporation.