Inprise Corporation
The company, known as Borland International,
Inc. until 1998-04-29, that sells a variety of {IBM 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 products include the {Borland C::} C:: and C
developement environment, the {Paradox} and {dBASE}
{databases}, {Delphi} 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.
In Febuary 1998 Borland bought {Visigenic Software, Inc.}.
Quarterly sales $69M, profits $61M (Aug 1994).
{Home (http://www.inprise.com/)}.
{Borland (http://www.borland.com/)}.
Headquarters: 100 Borland Way, Scotts Valley, CA, 95066, USA.
Telephone: :1 (408) 431 1000.
(1999-02-25)