< 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)
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Headquarters: 100 Borland Way, Scotts Valley, CA, 95066, USA. Telephone: +1 (408) 431 1000.
(2002-03-16)