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Borland Software Corporation (formerly Borland International, Inc.) is a software company (NASDAQ NM: BORL), located in Scotts Valley, California, best known for its Turbo Pascal programming tool that has evolved into today's Delphi programming language.1 1980s
Borland was founded in 1983 by French math teacher Philippe Kahn, who led the company as it developed a series of well-regarded software development tools. Their first product was Turbo Pascal, initially developed by Anders Hejlsberg. 1984 saw the launch of SideKick, a time organization, notebook and calculator utility. In September 1987 Borland purchased Ansa-Software including their Paradox (version 2.0) database management tool. The Quattro Pro spreadsheet was launched in 19891989 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 7 Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins January 8 the Kegworth Air Disaster A British Midland Boeing 737 cra with, at the time, a notable charting capability.
2 1990s
In September 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac Borland purchased Ashton-TateAshton-Tate Ashton-Tate Corporation is a former US based software company best known for developing the popular dBASE database application. The company was bought by Borland in September 1991. Products dBASE Framework integrated word processor, outliner a, bringing the dBasedBASE was the first widely used database application for microcomputers, published by Ashton-Tate for CP/M, and later on the Apple II, Apple Macintosh and IBM PC under DOS where it became one of the best-selling software titles for a number of years. database to the house, however the high price they paid was to be one of the causes of subsequent financial difficulties, which were worsened when MicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation , headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, is the world's largest software company (with over 50,000 employees in various countries, as of May 2004). Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software launched the competing database Microsoft AccessMicrosoft Access is a database management system from Microsoft, packaged with Microsoft Office Professional which combines the Jet relational database engine with a graphical interface intended to make it possible for relatively unskilled programmers and and bought the dBase clone FoxPro in 19921992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. Events January January The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 George H. Bush becomes the fi, undercutting Borland's prices.
During the mid- 1990s Borland's implementation of C++ was considered superior to then-market-trailing Microsoft. Also, its development of Paradox, with its ObjectPAL programming language, pitted it against software by Microsoft, in particular Access.
By the mid-1990s, Borland fell from dominance in the software tools market. Some people thought that competition from Microsoft was to blame.
Others felt that Philippe Kahn spread his company's resources too thinly over too many projects, in an attempt to battle Microsoft on many fronts. Kahn left the company in 1994.
The Delphi 1 rapid application development (RAD) environment was launched in 1995, under the leadership of Anders Hejlsberg.
