Brand: Borland
Founded by: Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad & Philippe Kahn
Headquarters: USA (Austin)
Since: 1983

Borland was founded in 1983 when a young Dane named Anders Hejlsberg reached an agreement with Philip Khan to sell the Pascal compiler that Anders had created for personal computers. Turbo Pascal was a compiler with an “environment” concept that was revolutionary at the time.
Borland later released compilers for other languages such as Prolog (Turbo Prolog) and Basic (Turbo BASIC). But the most popular and successful was the C programming language, Turbo C.
Borland rose to the top of the compiler market, competing with Microsoft.
But it lost that position before Windows 95 came out. The Windows version of Turbo Pascal was considered a good product. But programming for Windows cried out for a more comfortable environment. Meanwhile, Microsoft was taking over the market with Visual Basic. By the time Delphi was released in the spring of 1995, it had already lost a lot of ground.

Just as Delphi emerged as the evolution of Turbo Pascal for MS Windows, so did Turbo C give rise to C++Builder.
The company also launched JBuilder, a Java IDE (1996).

Company evolution:

In 1991, Borland acquired Ashton-Tate, continuing to market its flagship products, dBase and Interbase.

Around 1993-94, agreements were reached with WordPerfect for cooperation in office automation, with their products being marketed jointly.

Following the purchase of Visigenic (a company specializing in CORBA and creator of VisiBroker) in 1997, it changed its name to Inprise.

In 1999, Microsoft invested in the company, two months after causing the departure of Inprise's top executives.

In 2000, there was a failed attempt to merge with Corel.

In 2001, Inprise reverted to its famous name, becoming Borland Software Corporation.

On November 14, 2006, the IDEs and compilers department (Borland Developer Tools Group) separated from Borland to form a new subsidiary (whose sole shareholder was Borland) called CodeGear. The parent company, Borland Software Corporation, will focus on analysis, design, and application lifecycle management (ALM) tools.

In May 2008, Borland Software Corporation reached an agreement to sell CodeGear to Embarcadero Technologies for $23 million.

On May 6, 2009, software developer Micro Focus purchased Borland Software Corporation for $75 million.

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