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Borland Software Corporation
     
         A company 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}, {JBuilder}, 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.
        Novell later sold the product to {Corel Corporation}, who also
        bought {Paradox}.  dBASE also was sold in 1999.
     
        In Febuary 1998 Borland bought {Visigenic Software, Inc.}.
     
        The company changed its name to Inprise Corporation on
        1998-04-29 and then on 2000-11-14 they announced they were
        changing it back to Borland from the first quarter of 2001.
     
        Quarterly sales $69M, profits $61M (Aug 1994).
        $56M, $6.4M (July 2001)
     
        {Home (http://www.borland.com/)}.
     
        Headquarters: 100 Borland Way, Scotts Valley, CA, 95066, USA.
        Telephone: +1 (408) 431 1000.
     
        (2002-03-16)