Its first product was Turbo Pascal in 1983, developed by Anders Hejlsberg ( who later developed. NET and C # for Microsoft ) and before Borland acquired the product sold in Scandinavia under the name of Compas Pascal.

Lotus Development, under the leadership of Jim Manzi sued Borland for copyright infringement ( see " look and feel ").

Under the Borland name and a new management team headed by President and CEO Dale L. 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 Kylix.

On March 20, 2006, Borland announced its acquisition of Gauntlet Systems, a provider of technology that screens software under development for quality and security.

* Borland Software Corporation, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission Form 8-K filing, July 27, 2009 ( formally notifying SEC of the Change of Control under which Borland became a Micro Focus subsidiary )

A reimplementation of this compiler for the IBM PC was marketed under the names Compas Pascal and PolyPascal before it was acquired by Borland.

Turbo Pascal is a software development system that includes a compiler and an integrated development environment ( IDE ) for the Pascal programming language running on CP / M, CP / M-86, and DOS, developed by Borland under Philippe Kahn's leadership.

In early 2000, Borland announced that InterBase would be released under open source, and began negotiations to spin off a separate company to manage the product.

When the people who were to run the new company and Borland could not agree on the terms of the separation, InterBase remained a Borland product, and the source code for InterBase version 6 was released under a variant of the Mozilla Public License in mid-2000.

With the InterBase division at Borland under new management, the company released a proprietary version of InterBase version 6 and then 6. 5.

In October 1991, while the case was still under appeal, Borland International acquired Ashton-Tate, and as one of the merger's provisions the U. S. Justice Department required Borland to end the lawsuit against Fox and allow other companies to use the dBase language without the threat of legal action.

During the Mexican-American War, Borland was commissioned as a major in the Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry, serving under Archibald Yell.

The OO-dBASE compiler was no more able to run under Windows than was dBASE IV, causing Borland to abandon both code bases in 1993 and spin up a new team to create a new product, eventually delivered as dBASE for Windows in 1994.

However, the Borland marketing leadership preferred a functional product name over an iconic name and made preparations to release the product under the name " Borland AppBuilder ".

Embarcadero retained the CodeGear division created by Borland to identify its tool and database offerings, but identified its own database tools under the DatabaseGear name.

The set of operations available through the interface is not copyrightable in the United States under Lotus v. Borland, but it can be protected with a utility patent.

* WDSibyl is an open source Delphi-like IDE and compiler available for Microsoft Windows and OS / 2, and is a commercial Borland Pascal compatible environment released by a company called Speedsoft that was later developed into a Delphi like RAD environment called Sybil and then open sourced under the GPL when that company closed down.

It is a Linux version of the Borland Delphi software development environment and C ++ Builder, which runs under Microsoft Windows.

Around 1997 the C ++ version, including source code, was released by Borland into the public domain and is currently being ported and developed by an open-source community, under the GPL license.

Under Kahn's direction, Borland became the first software company to offer domestic partners full benefits.

Starfish Software was founded in 1994 by Philippe Kahn as a spin-off from the Simplify business unit from Borland and Kahn's severance from Borland.

Barbara Borland of Tigard took top senior individual home economics honors with a demonstration called filbert hats.

Wes Borland grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, he initially took an interest in becoming a drummer, but because his parents didn't take to the idea of bringing percussive instruments into their household, Borland began taking guitar lessons from a member of his parents ' Presbyterian church.

Kahn was President, CEO, and Chairman of Borland since inception and, without venture capital, took Borland from no revenues to a $ 500 million run-rate.

Corp. v. Borland Int ' l, Inc., brought forward Borland's open standards position as opposed to Lotus ' closed approach.

Philippe Kahn and the Borland board came to a disagreement on how to focus the company, and Philippe Kahn resigned as Chairman, CEO and President of Borland, a position he had held for 12 years, in January 1995.

However, the parting was amicable as Kahn remained on the Borland board until November 7, 1996, when he resigned from that position.

Incidentally, competitor Borland code-named their Quattro Pro software " Buddha ", as the software was meant to " assume the Lotus position " and take over Lotus 1-2-3's market.

Initially appointed, Roby was elected to the position on April 11, 1944, In 1946, Roby was succeeded by A. C. Borland, who served for twenty-two years.

In 1989, Borland opened his own design firm, ProDesign, just a year later he was offered a design position with Jack Nicklaus at Golden Bear International.

Kahn and the Borland board came to a disagreement on how to focus the company and in January 1995, Kahn was forced by the board to resign from his position as CEO.

On February 8, 2006, Borland announced the divestiture of their IDE division, including Delphi, JBuilder, and InterBase.

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.

On May 7, 2008, Borland announced the sale of CodeGear division to Embarcadero Technologies for an expected $ 23 million price and $ 7 million in CodeGear accounts receivables retained by Borland.

On February 8 of 2006, Borland announced the intention to sell their line of development tool products, including InterBase, Delphi, JBuilder, and other tools.

Then, on 7 May 2008, Borland and Embarcadero Technologies announced that Embarcadero had " signed a definitive asset purchase agreement to purchase CodeGear.

In September 2006, Borland announced the availability of InterBase 2007.

At the end of 2004 Borland announced that it would continue to develop the earlier C ++ Builder and bundle it with the Delphi development suite, abandoning C ++ BuilderX.

On February 8, 2006 Borland announced that it was looking for a buyer for its IDE and database line of products, including Delphi, to concentrate on its ALM line.

He announced plans for a Fall 2006 tour that never went through due to Black Light Burns needing to find a new record label after Borland left Geffen Records.

He announced plans for a Fall 2006 tour that never went through due to Black Light Burns needing to find a new record label after Borland left Geffen Records.

In 2004, Borland rejoined Limp Bizkit, and the band announced that they would begin recording a new album, The Unquestionable Truth ( Part 1 ).

Not long after the closure announcement, a San Francisco-based Christian institution, Olivet University, announced that it would lease the Bethany campus and hold its classes there, with the intent to acquire both the Bethany campus and the nearby former headquarters complex of Borland Software for its worldwide headquarters, but those deals fell through by May 2012 ; Olivet vacated the Bethany campus at that time and remains based in San Francisco.