Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms: Borland International
Borland International
(briefly renamed Inprise Corporation in the late 1990s) a manufacturer of microcomputer software, founded by Philippe Kahn and headquartered in Scotts Valley, California. Its first products were Turbo Pascal, an extremely popular Pascal compiler released in 1984 (see Turbo Pascal), and Sidekick, a set of IBM PC utilities that are always resident inRAMand can be called up at any time, even in the middle of another task. Later products include compilers for C and C++, the spreadsheet program Quattro, the database program Paradox, and, most recently, Delphi, Kylix, and Java development tools.Web address: www.borland.com.
