GFA BASIC did not have the company recognition or product recognition factors of companies such as Microsoft and Borland in the US market, and as a simple text-based code creation system, it lacked the exciting new " visual " user interfaces of its better-known competitors.

For a number of years ( both before and during the Inprise name ) Borland suffered from serious financial losses and very poor public image.

Several years later, Philippe Kahn would leave Borland amidst declining financial performance including many years of losses.

It was included in the sale of Borland products to WordPerfect, which were in turn resold as WordPerfect got into financial products, and at the current time of writing Paradox for Windows, WordPerfect and Quattro Pro for Windows are all owned by Corel and sold as part of their office suite.

At this time, Borland Scandinavia had gone bankrupt, while Borland France had to be saved by massive financial help from the US.

By 1990 Ashton-Tate was in serious financial trouble, and was eventually purchased by Borland in 1991.

Borland lost the strength to fight the multiple marketing battles it needed for its range of products.

Borland had 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.

The Microsoft / Borland C ++ compilers had the ability to use this system as soon as it was introduced in Windows 95 and NT, however the actual implementation was undocumented and had to be reverse engineered for the Wine project and free compilers.

Both the QPW and Paradox for Windows ( another Borland database application ) codebases were based on Borland's internal pilot project with object oriented UI code for Windows.

This project ran simultaneously with the Borland language group investigating the desirability of a C ++ compiler, and the company decided to make a bet on C ++.

Borland released several updates to the open source code before announcing that it would no longer actively develop the open source project.

Within a week of the InterBase 6. 0 source being released by Borland on 25 July 2000, the Firebird project was created on SourceForge.

Delphi was originally one of many codenames of a pre-release development tool project at Borland.

When Borland deprecated OWL in favor of VCL, a group of developers led by Yura Bidus started the project of maintaining the library in 1998.

In 1998, Borland formed a side project, Big Dumb Face, with whom he released one whole album.

In 1998, Borland formed a side project, Big Dumb Face, influenced by Ween and Mr. Bungle.

In 2005, Borland formed another side project Black Light Burns.

This lasted less than a year, as the Borland project began selling.

By early 1992 it became clear that Ashton-Tate was in difficulties on developing Windows versions of their products and so Borland switched plans, instead acquiring the company and anointing their internal project as the official successor.

Many product lines were discontinued, corporate reorganization and consolidation was painful, and even worse, the internal dBASE project at the center of the acquisition rationale was eventually cancelled for technical reasons leaving Borland with a collapse in revenues and a serious need to develop the missing dBASE for Windows in a hurry.

Wes Borland set the project to the side once he quit Limp Bizkit in 2001 to start up progressive metal outfit Eat the Day, but once Eat the Day fell through and Borland briefly rejoined Limp Bizkit in late 2004, Borland recorded and wrote a new Big Dumb Face thrash / death metal song called " Darkness Becomes ", which was available on Borland's website, but now is available on the Big Dumb Face website.

Lohner worked with Richard Patrick of Filter, Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit, Black Light Burns, and Josh Freese of A Perfect Circle and Nine Inch Nails, in a project called The Damning Well.

In 2005 and 2006, Lohner was involved further with Wes Borland in a project called Black Light Burns, taking on the role of producer as well as playing guitar, bass, synth, programming, and more.

Philippe Kahn was at all times Chairman, President, and CEO of Borland Inc. from its inception in 1983 until he left in 1995.

In 1985 Borland acquired Analytica and its Reflex database product.

Additionally, Borland was known for its practical and creative approach towards software piracy and intellectual property ( IP ), introducing its " Borland no-nonsense license agreement ".

This required new kinds of marketing and support materials from software vendors, but Borland remained focused on the technical side of its products.

In October 1994, Borland sold Quattro Pro and 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.

On April 29, 1998, Borland refocused its efforts on targeting enterprise applications development.

In October 2005, Borland acquired Legadero, in order to add its IT Management and Governance ( ITM & G ) suite, called Tempo, to the Borland product line.

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 focused on maximizing developer productivity.

In April 2007, Borland announced that it would be relocating its headquarters and R & D facilities to Austin, Texas.

Lotus sued Paperback Software and Mosaic for copyright infringement, false and misleading advertising, and unfair competition over their low-cost clones of 1-2-3, VP Planner and Twin, and sued Borland over its Quattro spreadsheet.

Borland changed the name to Quattro Pro for its 1990 release.

Borland did not adopt its trademark " blue screen " integrated development environment until the 1989 period when Turbo C 2. 0, Turbo C ++ 1. 1, etc.

It was developed by Borland for use in, and tightly integrated with, its Delphi and C ++ Builder RAD tools ( now owned by CodeGear, division of Embarcadero Technologies ).

It is developed by Borland for use in its Kylix, Delphi, and C ++ Builder software development environment.

Borland helped recruit troops for the Confederate States Army during this period, and helped raise the " 3rd Arkansas Cavalry " on June 10, 1861, and became its first colonel.

Borland had been marketing the Paradox database specifically to compete with dBASE, and its programmers considered their system to be far superior to dBASE.

When Borland eventually sold its Quattro Pro and Paradox products to Novell, where they would be joined with Word Perfect in an attempt to match Microsoft Office, Borland was left with InterBase, which Esber had purchased in the late 1980s and had its origins as a derivative of the RDB database work at DEC. Borland's ongoing strategy was to refocus its development tools on the corporate market with client – server applications, so Interbase fitted in as a low-end tool and a good generic SQL database for prototyping.