Borland Dead
Borland
KindCompany
Founded1983
Defunct2015
StatusDead
FoundersPhilippe Kahn
FieldDeveloper tools
Sourcewww.embarcadero.com ↗
Turbo Pascal for $49.95 when compilers cost hundreds — Kahn's mail-order upstart defined the IDE for a decade. Sold to Micro Focus in 2009; the name is now owned by Idera.
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Notable people Anders Hejlsberg
Philippe Kahn shipped Turbo Pascal in November 1983 from a Scotts Valley garage — $49.95 mail order when compilers cost hundreds, with a built-in editor that invented the IDE. Turbo C, Prolog, and Delphi followed; Anders Hejlsberg wrote them all.
The Microsoft fight it couldn't win (Hejlsberg defected 1996) plus the dBASE acquisition it couldn't digest broke it. Micro Focus bought the dev-tools business in 2009; Idera owns the name and still ships Delphi.