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{{Short description|Defunct American software company}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Borland Software Corporation
| logo = Borland logo.svg
| type = [[Subsidiary]]
| foundation = {{Start date|1983}} in [[California]] (Borland International, Inc.)<br/>April 29, 1998 (Inprise Corporation)<br/>April 29, 1998 (Borland Software Corporation)
| founders = Niels Jensen<br/>Ole Henriksen<br/>Mogens Glad<br/>[[Philippe Kahn]]
| fate = acquired by [[Micro Focus]], merged ({{End date|2015|04|05}})
| parent = [[OpenText]]
| defunct = {{End date and age|2015|04|05}}
| location = [[Austin, Texas]]
| key_people = Erik Prusch (acting CEO)
| num_employees = approx. 1,100<ref>As of January 31, 2016, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070521082021/http://finance.google.com/finance?q=BORL Google Finance] reports 1,168 employees, and [https://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=BORL Yahoo Finance] reports 1,097.</ref>
| industry = Computer [[software]]
| products = Borland [[SilkTest]], Borland [[StarTeam]], [[OpenText Together|Borland Together]], others
| revenue = {{loss}} US$172 million (2008)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://zenobank.com/index.php?symbol=BORL&page=quotesearch |title=Company Profile for Borland Software Corp (BORL) |access-date=2014-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313144707/http://zenobank.com/index.php?symbol=BORL&page=quotesearch |archive-date=13 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| website = {{URL|borland.com}}
}}

'''Borland Software Corporation''' was a [[computing]] technology company founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad, and [[Philippe Kahn]]. Its main business was developing and selling [[software development]] and [[software deployment]] products. Borland was first headquartered in [[Scotts Valley, California]], then in [[Cupertino, California]], and then in [[Austin, Texas]].<ref name="austinhq">{{cite press release|url=http://www.borland.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2007/04_16_07_borland_to_relocate_corporate_headquarters.html|date=April 16, 2007|publisher=Borland|title=Borland to Relocate Corporate Headquarters to Austin|access-date=January 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070521032232/http://www.borland.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2007/04_16_07_borland_to_relocate_corporate_headquarters.html|archive-date=May 21, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 2009, the company became a full subsidiary of the British firm [[Micro Focus]] International plc. In 2023, Micro Focus (including Borland) was acquired by Canadian firm [[OpenText]], which later absorbed Borland's portfolio into its application delivery management division.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Borland History and Product Links – OpenText |url=https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/borland/overview |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=www.microfocus.com |language=en-us}}</ref>

==History==
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===The 1980s: Foundations===
Borland Ltd. was founded in August 1981 by three [[Danes|Danish]] citizens{{snd}} Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, and Mogens Glad{{snd}} to develop products like Word Index for the [[CP/M]] operating system using an [[off-the-shelf company]]. However, the response to the company's products at the CP/M-82 show in [[San Francisco]] showed that a U.S. company would be needed to reach the American market. They met [[Philippe Kahn]], who had just moved to Silicon Valley and had been a key developer of the [[Micral]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Philippe Kahn |url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=Wikiquote |language=en}}</ref> Kahn was chairman, president, and CEO of Borland Inc. at its inception in 1983 and until 1995.

The first name for the company was not ''Borland''. It was ''MIT''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=FoRK Archive: origins of Borland name |url=https://xent.com/FoRK-archive/apr98/0460.html |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=xent.com}}</ref> The acronym MIT stood for "Market In Time". The name "Borland" originated from a small company in [[Ireland]], which was one of MIT initial customers. After they went bankrupt, MIT sought permission to acquire and use the name "Borland" in the U.S., following a legal recommendation during a [[rebranding]] prompted by a letter from MIT ([[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]).

The main shareholders at the incorporation of Borland were Niels Jensen (250,000 shares), Ole Henriksen (160,000), Mogens Glad (100,000), and Kahn (80,000).{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}

===Borland International, Inc. era===
Borland developed various software development tools. Its first product was [[Turbo Pascal]] in 1983, developed by [[Anders Hejlsberg]] (who later developed [[.NET]] and [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]] for [[Microsoft]]) and before Borland acquired the product which was sold in Scandinavia under the name ''Compas Pascal''. In 1984, Borland launched [[Borland Sidekick|Sidekick]], a time organization, notebook, and calculator utility that was an early [[terminate-and-stay-resident program]] (TSR) for [[MS-DOS]] compatible operating systems.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Eckhouse |first=R. |date=May 1986 |title=New Product Reviews |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1695555 |journal=IEEE Software |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=79–80 |doi=10.1109/MS.1986.233729 |s2cid=47193752 |issn=1937-4194}}</ref>

By the mid-1980s, the company had an exhibit at the 1985 [[West Coast Computer Faire]] along with [[IBM]] and [[AT&T]].<ref name="pournelle198508">{{cite news |last=Pournelle |first=Jerry |author-link=Jerry Pournelle |date=August 1985 |url=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-08/page/n299/mode/2up |title=The West Coast Computer Faire |volume=10 |issue=8 |pages=293–326 |website=[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1985-08/1985_08_BYTE_10-08_Declarative_Languages#page/n299/mode/2up |archive-date=22 September 2012 |access-date=18 March 2024}}</ref> [[Bruce Webster]] reported that "the legend of Turbo Pascal has by now reached mythic proportions, as evidenced by the number of firms that, in marketing meetings, make plans to become 'the next Borland'".<ref name="webster198608">{{cite news |last=Webster |first=Bruce |author-link=Bruce Webster |date=August 1986 |url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1986-08/1986_08_BYTE_11-08_Object-Oriented_Languages#page/n355/mode/2up |title=Going to the Faire |website=[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]] |access-date=23 September 2016 |pages=323–328}}</ref> After Turbo Pascal and Sidekick, the company launched other applications such as SuperKey and Lightning, all developed in Denmark. While the Danes remained majority shareholders, board members included Kahn, [[Tim Berry (entrepreneur)|Tim Berry]], John Nash, and David Heller. With the assistance of John Nash and David Heller, both British members of the Borland Board, the company was taken public on London's Unlisted Securities Market (USM) in 1986.

[[Schroders]] was the lead investment banker. According to the London IPO filings, the management team was Philippe Kahn as president, Spencer Ozawa as VP of Operations, Marie Bourget as CFO, and Spencer Leyton as VP of sales and business development. All software development continued to take place in Denmark and later London as the Danish co-founders moved there. A first US IPO followed in 1989 after Ben Rosen joined the Borland board with [[Goldman Sachs]] as the lead banker and a second offering in 1991 with Lazard as the lead banker.

In 1985, Borland acquired Analytica and its [[Borland Reflex|Reflex]] database product. [[Forrester Research]] considered Borland with Analytica, [[Ashton-Tate]], [[Lotus Development]], and Microsoft the "Big Four" of personal computer software.<ref name="forbes19851021">{{Cite magazine |last=Forbes |first=Jim |date=1985-10-21 |title=Corporate Mergers Offer Clout |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jy8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA24#v=onepage&q&f=true |access-date=2025-03-16 |magazine=InfoWorld |page=24}}</ref> The engineering team of Analytica, managed by [[Brad Silverberg]] and including Reflex co-founder [[Adam Bosworth]], became the core of Borland's engineering team in the US. Brad Silverberg was VP of engineering until he left in early 1990 to head up the Personal Systems division at Microsoft. Adam Bosworth initiated and headed up the [[Quattro Pro|Quattro]] project until moving to Microsoft later in 1990 to take over the project which eventually became [[Microsoft Access|Access]].

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. Turbo C was released on May 18, 1987. This drove a wedge between Borland and Niels Jensen and the other members of his team who had been working on a brand-new series of compilers at their London development centre. They reached an agreement and spun off a company named Jensen & Partners International (JPI), later TopSpeed. JPI first launched an MS-DOS compiler named JPI Modula-2, which later became TopSpeed Modula-2, and followed up with TopSpeed C, TopSpeed C++, and TopSpeed Pascal compilers for both the MS-DOS and OS/2 operating systems. The TopSpeed compiler technology still exists as the underlying technology of the [[Clarion (programming language)|Clarion]] 4GL programming language, a Windows development tool.

In September 1987, Borland purchased Ansa-Software, including their [[Borland Paradox|Paradox]] (version 2.0) [[database#Database management system|database management]] tool. Richard Schwartz, a cofounder of Ansa, became Borland's CTO and Ben Rosen joined the Borland board.

The [[Quattro Pro]] spreadsheet was launched in 1989. Lotus Development, under the leadership of [[Jim Manzi]], sued Borland for copyright infringement (see [[Look and feel]]). The litigation, ''[[Lotus Dev. Corp. v. Borland Int'l, Inc.]]'',<ref name=LotusVBorland>{{cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=18208011207990458376&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr |title=Lotus Dev. Corp. v. Borland Int'l, Inc., 516 U.S. 233|access-date=April 24, 2012}}</ref> brought forward Borland's open standards position as opposed to Lotus' closed approach. Borland, under Kahn's leadership, took a position of principle and announced that they would defend against Lotus' legal position and "fight for programmer's rights".{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}} After a decision in favour of Borland by the [[First Circuit Court of Appeals]], the case went to the United States Supreme Court. Because Justice [[John Paul Stevens]] had recused himself, only eight justices heard the case, and concluded in a 4–4 tie.<ref name=LotusVBorland/> As a result, the First Circuit Court decision remained standing but did not bind any other court and set no national precedent.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Black |first1=Ryan |last2=Epstein |first2=Lee |title=Recusal and the "Problem" of an Equally Divided Supreme Court |journal=Journal of Appellate Practice and Process |date=Spring 2005 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=75–99, 81 |url=http://epstein.usc.edu/research/recusal.html |access-date=April 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313215531/http://epstein.usc.edu/research/recusal.html |archive-date=2012-03-13 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Additionally, Borland's approach towards [[Copyright infringement of software|software piracy]] and [[intellectual property]] (IP) included its "Borland no-nonsense license agreement"; allowing the developer/user to utilize its products "just like a book". The user was allowed to make multiple copies of a program, as long as it was the only copy in use at any point in time.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Borland in the 1980s: "Treat Software Just Like a Book" – OSnews|url=https://www.osnews.com/story/22342/borland-in-the-1980s-treat-software-just-like-a-book/|access-date=2020-09-02|website=www.osnews.com}}</ref>

===The 1990s: Rise and change===
In September 1991, Borland purchased [[Ashton-Tate]], bringing the [[dBASE]] and [[InterBase]] databases to the house, in an all-stock transaction.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1991-07-11|title=Borland to Acquire Ashton-Tate in a $439-Million Deal|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-11-fi-3022-story.html|access-date=2020-10-01|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> However, competition with Microsoft was fierce. [[Microsoft]] launched the competing database [[Microsoft Access]] and bought the dBASE clone [[FoxPro]] in 1992, undercutting Borland's prices. During the early 1990s, Borland's implementation of [[C (programming language)|C]] and [[C++]] outsold Microsoft's. Borland survived as a company, but no longer dominated the software tools that it once had. It went through a radical transition in products, financing, and staff, and became a very different company from the one which challenged Microsoft and Lotus in the early 1990s.

The internal problems that arose with the Ashton-Tate merger were a large part of the downfall. Ashton-Tate's product portfolio proved to be weak, with no provision for evolution into the GUI environment of Windows. Almost all product lines were discontinued. The consolidation of duplicate support and development offices was costly and disruptive. Worst of all, the highest revenue earner of the combined company was dBASE with no Windows version ready.<ref>[http://www.compuvision.info/delayed-graphical-products-put-dent-in-borlands-image.html Delayed Graphical Products Put Dent in Borland’s Image] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721192941/http://www.compuvision.info/delayed-graphical-products-put-dent-in-borlands-image.html |date=2011-07-21}}, PC Week, April 20, 1992</ref><ref name=latimes1>{{cite news |last=Weber |first=Jonathan |title=Kahn the Barbarian |work=Los Angeles Times |date=February 23, 1992 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-02-23-fi-5118-story.html |access-date=February 7, 2012}}</ref> 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 (the [[ObjectVision]] team, redeployed) headed by Bill Turpin to redo the job.

Borland lacked the financial strength to project its marketing and move internal resources off other products to shore up the dBASE/W effort. Layoffs occurred in 1993 to keep the company afloat, the third instance of this in five years. By the time dBASE for Windows eventually shipped, the developer community had moved on to other products such as Clipper or FoxBase, and dBASE never regained a significant share of Ashton-Tate's former market. This happened against the backdrop of the rise in Microsoft's combined Office product marketing.{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}}

A change in market conditions also contributed to Borland's fall from prominence. In the 1980s, companies had few people who understood the growing personal computer phenomenon and so most technical people were given free rein to purchase whatever software they thought they needed. Borland had done an excellent job marketing to those with a highly technical bent. By the mid-1990s, however, companies were beginning to ask what the return was on the investment they had made in this loosely controlled PC software buying spree. Company executives were starting to ask questions that were hard for technically minded staff to answer, and so corporate standards began to be created. This required new kinds of marketing and support materials from software vendors, but Borland remained focused on the technical side of its products.

In 1993 Borland explored ties with [[WordPerfect]] as a possible way to form a suite of programs to rival Microsoft's nascent integration strategy. WordPerfect itself was struggling with a late and troubled transition to Windows. The eventual joint company effort, named Borland Office for Windows (a combination of the WordPerfect word processor, Quattro Pro spreadsheet, and Paradox database) was introduced at the 1993 Comdex computer show. Borland Office never made significant inroads against Microsoft Office. WordPerfect was then bought by [[Novell]]. In October 1994, Borland sold Quattro Pro and rights to sell up to a 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. This later proved a good foundation for the shift to web development tools.

[[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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maney |first=Kevin |date=January 23, 2007 |title=Baby's arrival inspires birth of cellphone camera — and societal evolution |work=USA Today |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kevinmaney/2007-01-23-kahn-cellphone-camera_x.htm |access-date=September 14, 2016}}</ref> Kahn remained on the board until November 7, 1996.<ref name="KahnBoard">{{cite press release|publisher=Borland |date=November 7, 1996 |url=http://www.borland.com/about/press/1996/pkresign.html |title=Kahn Resigns as Borland Director – Cites Increasing Demands of New Business |access-date=September 14, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010618010852/http://www.borland.com/about/press/1996/pkresign.html |archive-date=June 18, 2001}}</ref> Borland named Gary Wetsel as CEO, but he resigned in July 1996. [[William F. Miller]] was interim CEO until September of that year, when Whitney G. Lynn (the current chairman at mergers & acquisitions company XRP Healthcare) became interim president and CEO (along with other executive changes),<ref>{{Cite web |date=1996-09-25 |title=Borland Announces Interim President and CEO |url=http://www.borland.com/about/press/1996/interimceo.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010606134435/http://www.borland.com/about/press/1996/interimceo.html |archive-date=2001-06-06 |access-date=2016-09-14 |work=borland.com}}</ref> followed by a succession of CEOs including [[Dale Fuller (businessman)|Dale Fuller]] and Tod Nielsen.

The [[Delphi (software)|Delphi 1]] [[rapid application development]] (RAD) environment was launched in 1995, under the leadership of [[Anders Hejlsberg]].

In 1996 Borland acquired Open Environment Corporation,<ref>[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-18275531.html Borland to Acquire Open Environment Corporation]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} ''Business Wire'', May 13, 1996</ref> a Cambridge-based company founded by [[John J. Donovan]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=SEC Info - Open Environment Corp - '8-K' for 5/11/96 - EX-99.1 |url=http://www.secinfo.com/dsVQy.93Hk.c.htm |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=www.secinfo.com}}</ref>

On November 25, 1996, [[Del Yocam]] was hired as Borland CEO and chairman.

In 1997, Borland sold [[Paradox (database)|Paradox]] to [[Corel]], but retained all development rights for the core [[BDE (Borland)|BDE]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Corel takes Paradox command from stricken Borland|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/corel-takes-paradox-command-from-stricken-borland/|last=Veitch|first=Martin|website=ZDNet|language=en|access-date=2020-04-30}}</ref> In November 1997, Borland acquired Visigenic, a middleware company that was focused on implementations of CORBA.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Borland buys Visigenic|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/borland-buys-visigenic/|last=Kane|first=Margaret|website=ZDNet|language=en|access-date=2020-04-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Newswires |first=Dow Jones |date=1997-11-18 |title=Borland to Purchase Visigenic In Deal Valued at $150 million |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB879864222619935000 |access-date=2020-04-30 |issn=0099-9660}}</ref>

===Inprise Corporation era===
In April 1998, Borland International, Inc. announced it had become Inprise Corporation.<ref>{{Cite press release |author=<!-- Unstated --> |url=http://www.borland.com/about/press/1998/strategy.html |title=Borland Becomes Inprise Corporation; New Company to Champion Next Wave in Enterprise Computing – Inprise Will Help Corporate Customers Develop, Deploy, and Manage Next Generation of Distributed Enterprise Applications |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001018125734/http://www.borland.com/about/press/1998/strategy.html |archive-date=2000-10-18 |access-date=2020-03-05}}</ref>

For several years, before and during the Inprise name, Borland suffered from serious financial losses and poor public image. When the name was changed to Inprise, many thought Borland had gone out of business. In March 1999, dBASE was sold to KSoft, Inc. which was soon renamed dBASE Inc. (In 2004 dBASE Inc. was renamed to DataBased Intelligence, Inc.).

In 1999, Dale L. Fuller replaced Yocam. At this time Fuller's title was "interim president and CEO". The "interim" was dropped in December 2000. [[Keith Gottfried]] served in senior executive positions with the company from 2000 to 2004.

A proposed merger between Inprise and Corel was announced in February 2000, aimed at producing [[Linux]]-based products. The plan was abandoned when Corel's shares fell and it became clear that there was no strategic fit.

[[InterBase]] 6.0 was made available as [[open-source software]] in July 2000.

In November 2000, Inprise Corporation announced the company intended to officially change its name to Borland Software Corporation. The legal name of the company would continue to be Inprise Corporation until the completion of the renaming process during the first quarter of 2001. Once the name change was completed, the company would also expect to change its Nasdaq market symbol from "INPR" to "BORL".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.borland.com/news/press_releases/2000/11_14_00_name_change.html |title=Inprise Corporation Plans to Change its Name to Borland Software Corporation |access-date=2004-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041212043033/http://www.borland.com/news/press_releases/2000/11_14_00_name_change.html |archive-date=2004-12-12 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Borland Software Corporation era===
On January 2, 2001, Borland Software Corporation announced it had completed its name change from Inprise Corporation. Effective at the opening of trading on Nasdaq, the company's Nasdaq market symbol would also be changed from "INPR" to "BORL".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.borland.com/news/press_releases/2001/01_22_01_namechange.html |title=Borland Software Corporation Completes Name Change |access-date=2004-12-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041212055212/http://www.borland.com/news/press_releases/2001/01_22_01_namechange.html |archive-date=2004-12-12}}</ref>

Under the Borland name and a new management team headed by president and CEO Dale L.&nbsp;Fuller, a now-smaller and profitable Borland refocused on Delphi and created a version of Delphi and [[C++Builder]] for Linux, both under the name [[Borland Kylix|Kylix]]. This brought Borland's expertise in [[integrated development environment]]s to the Linux platform for the first time. Kylix was launched in 2001.

Plans to spin off the InterBase division as a separate company were abandoned after Borland and the people who were to run the new company could not agree on terms for the separation. Borland stopped open-source releases of InterBase and has developed and sold new versions at a fast pace.

In 2001, Delphi 6 became the first integrated development environment to support web services.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.itweb.co.za/content/kYbe97XxAkB7AWpG|title=Borland delivers on web services promises with Delphi 6|last=Partners|first=Global Research|date=2001-07-12|website=ITWeb|language=en-ZA|access-date=2019-01-18}}</ref> All of the company's development platforms now support web services.

C#Builder was released in 2003 as a native [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]] development tool, competing with [[Visual Studio .NET]]. By the 2005 release, C#Builder, Delphi for Win32, and Delphi for .NET were combined into one IDE named "Borland Developer Studio", though it was still 
popularly known as "Delphi". In late 2002 Borland purchased design tool vendor TogetherSoft and tool publisher [[Starbase Corporation|Starbase]], makers of the [[StarTeam]] configuration management tool and the [[CaliberRM]] requirements management tool (eventually, CaliberRM was renamed as "Caliber"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://makingofsoftware.com/2014/list-of-rm-tools-updated-september-2014-version|title=List of RM Tools Updated: September 2014 Version – the Making of Software}}</ref>). The latest{{Which |date=September 2016}} releases of [[JBuilder]] and Delphi integrate these tools to give developers a broader set of tools for development.

Former CEO Dale Fuller quit in July 2005, but remained on the board of directors.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.forbes.com/2005/07/08/0708autofacescan02.html |work=Forbes |author=Chris Noon |title=Borland CEO Quits; Company Lowers Forecast |date=July 8, 2005 |access-date=September 14, 2016}}</ref> Former COO Scott Arnold took the title of interim president and chief executive officer until November 8, 2005, when it was announced that Tod Nielsen would take over as CEO effective November 9, 2005. Nielsen remained with the company until January 2009, when he accepted the position of [[chief operating officer]] at [[VMware]];<ref name=cnetnews20090106>[http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-10133309-60.html ''VMware hires away Borland CEO'']. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226093755/http://news.cnet.com//8301-10787_3-10133309-60.html |date=2009-02-26}}. CNet News, January 6, 2008.</ref> CFO Erik Prusch then took over as acting president and CEO.<ref name=cnetnews20090106/>

In early 2007 Borland announced new branding for its focus around open application life-cycle management. In April 2007 Borland announced that it would relocate its headquarters and development facilities to [[Austin, Texas]].<ref name="austinhq" /> It also had development centers in [[Singapore]], [[Santa Ana, California]], [[Prague]], Czech Republic, and [[Linz]], Austria.

On May 6, 2009, the company announced it was to be acquired by [[Micro Focus]] for $75&nbsp;million.<ref name="foxbusiness.com">{{cite web| url=http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/technology/borland-bought-micro-focus--mln/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509145156/http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/technology/borland-bought-micro-focus--mln/| url-status=dead| archive-date=2009-05-09| title=Foxbusiness.com| website=[[Fox Business]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/2632176/m-a/micro-focus-buys-borland-software-for--75-million.html|title=Micro Focus buys Borland Software for $75 million|last=Sayer|first=Peter|work=InfoWorld|date=2009-05-06|access-date=2018-05-25|language=en}}</ref> The transaction was approved by Borland shareholders on July 22, 2009, with Micro Focus acquiring the company for $1.50 per share.<ref name="shareholderapproval">{{cite press release|url=http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090722006307&newsLang=en|date=July 22, 2009|publisher=BusinessWire|title=Borland Announces Stockholder Approval of Micro Focus Merger Agreement}}</ref> Following Micro Focus shareholder approval and the required corporate filings, the transaction was completed in late July 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Form 8-K: Current Report |author=Borland Software Corporation |date=July 27, 2009 |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/853273/000095012309026327/d68533e8vk.htm |publisher=United States Securities and Exchange Commission |access-date=September 14, 2016}}</ref><ref>[http://microfocus.com/Solutions/TestingASQ/WelcomeBorlandCustomers/PressRelease.asp ''Micro Focus International plc completes acquisition of Borland Software Corporation''] Micro Focus press release, undated, retrieved July 27, 2009</ref> Borland was estimated to have 750 employees at the time.<ref name=MercuryNews>{{Cite news |title=Borland bought by Micro Focus for $75M |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_12309355 |work=San Jose Mercury News |date=May 6, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211831/http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_12309355 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |access-date=September 14, 2016}}</ref>

On April 5, 2015, Micro Focus announced the completion of integrating the [[Attachmate Group]] of companies that was merged on November 20, 2014. During the integration period, the affected companies were merged into one organization. In the announced reorganization, Borland products would be part of the Micro Focus portfolio.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.microfocus.com/about/press-room/article/2015/borland-is-now-part-of-micro-focus/ |title=Borland is now part of Micro Focus}}</ref>

==Subsidiaries==
*Leaders: In October 2005, Borland acquired Leaders, to add its IT management and governance suite, named Tempo, to the Borland product line.
*[[CodeGear]]: On February 8, 2006, Borland announced the divestiture of their IDE division, including [[Delphi (software)|Delphi]], [[JBuilder]], and [[InterBase]]. At the same time, they announced the planned acquisition of Segue Software, a maker of software test and quality tools, to concentrate on application life-cycle management (ALM). On March 20, 2006, Borland announced its acquisition of Gauntlet Systems, a provider of technology that screens software under development for quality and security. On November 14, 2006, Borland announced its decision to separate the developer tools group into a wholly-owned subsidiary. The newly formed operation, [[CodeGear]], was responsible for four IDE product lines. On May 7, 2008, Borland announced the sale of the CodeGear division to [[Embarcadero Technologies]] for an expected {{US$|long=no|23 million}} price and {{US$|long=no|7 million}} in CodeGear accounts receivables retained by Borland.

==Products==
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===Recent===
The products acquired from Segue Software include [[Silk Central]], [[Silk Performer]], and [[Silk Test]]. The Silk line was first announced in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Form 10-K: Annual Report |author=Segue Software |publisher=United States Securities and Exchange Commission |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894572/0000950109-97-002576.txt |date=February 28, 1997 |access-date=September 14, 2016}}</ref> Other programs are:

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* [[Borland AppServer]]
* [[Borland Caliber DefineIT]]
* [[Borland CaliberRM]]
* [[Borland Enterprise Server]]
* [[Borland Enterprise Studio]], for C++, Mobile and Java
* [[Borland Gauntlet]]
* [[StarTeam]]
* [[Borland Tempo]]
* [[OpenText Together|Borland Together for Eclipse]]
* [[Visibroker]]
}}

===Historical products===
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* [[Borland C++]]
* [[Delphi (software)|Borland Delphi]]
* [[Brief (text editor)]]
* [[C++Builder]], C++BuilderX
* C#Builder
* [[CodeWright]]
* [[Entera]] (acquired from OEC)
* Eureka: The Solver (numerical solver for mathematical systems of equations)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Borland's Eureka solves complex problems|publisher=Computer Magazine. p. 124.|url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/1987/01/01663371.pdf|date=January 1987|access-date=2018-11-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129055850/https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/1987/01/01663371.pdf|archive-date=2018-11-29|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[IntraBuilder]]
* [[JBuilder]]
* [[Borland Kylix|Kylix]]
* [[ObjectVision]]
* [[Turbo Assembler]]
* [[Turbo BASIC]] (now [[PowerBASIC]])
* [[Turbo C]]
* [[Turbo C++]]
* [[Turbo Debugger]]
* [[Turbo Delphi]]
* [[Turbo Pascal]]
* [[Turbo Pascal Database Toolbox]]
* [[Turbo Pascal Editor Toolbox]]
* [[Turbo Pascal Graphix Toolbox]]
* [[Turbo Pascal Numerical Methods Toolbox]]
* [[Turbo Pascal Tutor]]
* [[Turbo Profiler]]
* [[Turbo Prolog]] (now [[Visual Prolog]])
* [[DBASE|dBase]]
* [[InterBase]]
* [[Borland Paradox]]
* [[Borland Sidekick|Sidekick]]
* [[Sidekick Plus]]
* [[SuperKey]]
* [[Turbo Lightning]] ([[Terminate-and-stay-resident program|TSR]] spell checker)
* [[Borland Eureka the Solver]]
* [[Borland Reflex]]
* [[Quattro Pro|Quattro]]
* [[Quattro Pro]]
* [[Sprint (word processor)|Sprint]]
* [[Turbo GameWorks]] (Turbo Pascal source and executables for bridge, Gomoku, and chess)
* [[Word Wizard]] (Requires Turbo Lightning)
}}

===Unreleased software===
* [[Turbo Modula-2]]: Later sold by TopSpeed as TopSpeed Modula-2.

==Marketing==
* ''CB Magazine'': It is an official magazine by Borland Japan.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.borland.co.jp/cbmagazine/index.htm |title=CB Magazine |access-date=2019-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19971007041447/http://www.borland.co.jp/cbmagazine/index.htm |archive-date=1997-10-07 |url-status=live}}</ref> The magazine was republished on April 3, 1997.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.borland.co.jp/cbmagazine/no_1.htm |title=誌名変更・復刊の挨拶 開発者の生産性を追及する CB Magazine |access-date=2019-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19971007044602/http://www.borland.co.jp/cbmagazine/no_1.htm |archive-date=1997-10-07 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Renaming to Inprise Corporation===
Along with renaming from Borland International, Inc. to Inprise Corporation, the company refocused its efforts on targeting enterprise applications development. Borland hired a marketing firm [[Lexicon Branding]] to come up with a new name for the company. Yocam explained that the new name, Inprise, was meant to evoke "integrating the enterprise".<ref>{{cite news |title=Borland sheds past with new name, game |author=Jamie Beckett |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=April 30, 1998 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Borland-Sheds-Past-With-New-Name-Game-3007313.php |access-date=September 14, 2016}}</ref> The idea was to integrate Borland's tools, [[Delphi (software)|Delphi]], [[C++Builder]], and [[JBuilder]] with enterprise environment software, including Visigenic's implementations of CORBA, [[Visibroker]] for C++ and Java, and the new product, [[Borland Enterprise Server|Application Server]].

===Frank Borland===
Frank Borland is a mascot character for Borland products. According to Philippe Kahn, the mascot first appeared in advertisements and the cover of [[Borland Sidekick]] 1.0 manual,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20283 |title=Will The Real Frank Borland Please Stand Up? |website=Borland History |access-date=2019-04-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425024711/http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20283 |archive-date=2019-04-25}}</ref> which was in 1984 during Borland International, Inc. era. Frank Borland also appeared in Turbo Tutor - A Turbo Pascal Tutorial, Borland [[JBuilder]] 2.

A live action version of Frank Borland was made after Micro Focus plc had acquired Borland Software Corporation.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.trueagency.com/hs-fs/hub/453627/file-2505561865-pdf/images/work/borland_frank_borland_is_back/Frank_Borland_is_back_Booklet.pdf |title=Frank Borland is Back |access-date=2019-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425023252/http://www.trueagency.com/hs-fs/hub/453627/file-2505561865-pdf/images/work/borland_frank_borland_is_back/Frank_Borland_is_back_Booklet.pdf |archive-date=2019-04-25 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.heise.de/developer/meldung/Frank-Borland-is-Back-1758892.html| title=Frank Borland is Back!| date=29 November 2012}}</ref> This version was created by True Agency Limited.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.trueagency.com/borland-frank-is-back |title=Frank is Back |access-date=2016-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829173220/http://www.trueagency.com/borland-frank-is-back |archive-date=2016-08-29 |url-status=live}}</ref> An introductory film was also made about the mascot.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://lbbonline.com/news/80s-ad-icon-frank-borland-returns/| title=80s Ad Icon Frank Borland Returns}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of file formats (alphabetical)]]
* ''[[Lotus Development Corp. v. Borland International, Inc.]]''

==Citations==
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==General references==
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* {{cite web |url=http://www.alliedeprs.com/ |work=Allied Enterprises – A Company for everything |title=Allied Enterprises – Integrating the Enterprise |author=Azhar |date=September 2016}}
* {{cite news |last=Jeffers |first=Michelle |date=November 27, 2000 |url=https://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/1127/103.html |title=Getting Chance to Dance |work=Forbes |access-date=2006-04-21}}
* {{cite news |last=Kellner |first=Tomas |date=September 7, 2001 |title=Survivor |work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/0709/128.html |access-date=August 30, 2005}}
* {{cite news |first=Michael |last=Krey |url=http://www.lightsurf.com/news/articles/ibd070502.html |title=Borland Founder Kahn Focuses On Sending Photos Over Cell Phones |work=Investor's Business Daily |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060323213126/http://www.lightsurf.com/news/articles/ibd070502.html |archive-date=2006-03-23 |access-date=2006-04-21}}
* {{cite magazine |last=Parks |first=Bob |date=October 2000 |url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/kahn.html |title=The Big Picture – Borland International Inc.'s Philippe Kahn |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |access-date=April 20, 2006}}
* {{cite web |publisher=eWeek |last=Taft |first=Darryl |date=November 2006 |url=http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2059084,00.asp |title=Borland Launches CodeGear to Supply Developers with Tools of the Trade |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102121112/http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2059084,00.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 2, 2013 |access-date=November 14, 2006}}
* {{cite web |last=Intersimone |first=David |date=December 7, 1999 |url=http://dn.codegear.com/article/0,1410,20283,00.html |title=Will The Real Frank Borland Please Stand Up? |website=Borland History |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102110544/http://dn.codegear.com/article/0,1410,20283,00.html |archive-date=2013-01-02 |access-date=2024-03-18}}
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/19980423080957/http://www.borland.com/ Borland International, Inc.]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20010118233900/http://www.inprise.com/ Inprise Corporation]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20141029002108/http://www.borland.com/ Borland Software Corporation]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20200224020050/https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/borland/overview?utm_medium=301&utm_source=borland.com Micro Focus Borland site]

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