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In September 1991 Borland purchased Ashton-Tate, bringing the dBase and InterBase databases to the house, in an all stock transaction.

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 and C ++ outsold Microsoft's.

Borland survived as a company, but no longer had the dominance in software tools that it once had.

It has gone through a radical transition in products, financing, and staff, now a very different company from the one which challenged Microsoft and Lotus in the early 1990s.