History

For more than 20 years, Borland has been simplifying and speeding the process of developing world-class software. A pioneer in the software development space, Borland launched one of the first PC development environments, Turbo Pascal®, which helped make possible the commercial development of PC applications. Through the years, Borland has anticipated the need of millions of software professionals by continually refining its technology to help them stay ahead of new opportunities, while reducing the cost and risk associated with leveraging the best of all available technologies and talent.

Our client base

Over 80 percent of global 2000 companies counts themselves as Borland customers. Our solutions and services are used by organizations large and small across the globe and span industries ranging from public sector and healthcare to telecommunications and financial service firms. Our customers include such names as: American Express, AOL, Bank of America, British Telecom, Charles Schwab & Co., Cisco, Citigroup, CNA, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Telekom, Fidelity Investments, Intel, Jaguar, Lucent, MetLife, Morgan Stanley, Motorola, NASA, Quest Diagnostics, SBC Communications, Societe Generale, Sony Ericsson, Staples, U.S. Army and Verizon.

Industry Leadership

Borland has a long tradition of participation in organizations that guide the development and adoption of industry standards. This participation provides customers with an influential voice in the direction of key standards such as the OMG™ CORBA® specification, the Sun J2EE™ platform, the ANSI C++ specification, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and XML. Borland is an executive committee member of the Java Community Process™ (JCP), and a core member of the Java® Tools Community (JTC) and ECMA, organizations helping to shape standards for the Java 2 and Microsoft .NET platforms, as well as the Java, C# and C++ programming languages.

Dedicated to providing software technology that works across all major computing architectures, Borland has strong business relationships with industry leaders such as Accenture, Apple, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Ltd., Intel, Microsoft, NEC, Netscape, Nokia, Novell, Oracle, Tibco, SAP, Siemens, Sony Ericsson and Sun Microsystems.

Our Philosophy

As a true independent software vendor, it has always been Borland's mission to provide developers with state of the art tools to simplify the task of building quality applications - regardless of computing environment. Borland IDE solutions liberate developers from the ills of vendor lock-in and allow them to freely develop for their platform of choice without hours of extraneous programming. Designed to drive developer productivity, Borland IDE's deliver visual tools and features to automate routine repetitive task relieving development teams from tedious hours of coding and allowing them to focus on core business functionality. Furthermore, Borland Core SDP helps free development teams from bearing the burden of scope creep by providing business owners and management visibility into the impacts proposed changes have on delivery schedules.

• JBuilder: Making collaborative development fast and reliable for Java™, open source and the web.
• Delphi: Part of Borland Developer Studio, Delphi is the premier rapid application development solution for Windows.
• C++Builder: Part of Borland Developer Studio, C++Builder is the ultimate C++ visual development environment for the Windows® platform, with full support for Web, Web services, GUI, and Database application development.
• C#Builder: Part of Borland Developer Studio, C#Builder is a complete solution for enterprise C# development, featuring integrated application lifecycle management, UML modeling, object-relational mapping, persistence, and transaction support.
• Turbo: The all new single language development environments - Turbo™ Delphi, Turbo Delphi for .NET, Turbo C++ and Turbo C# - provide everything you need to start real development today, the fun and easy way!
• Interbase: Borland InterBase 2007 is a high-performance, cross-platform, Unicode, SQL 92 compliant database combining ease-of-use and maintenance, disaster recovery, and scalable multiprocessor support, designed for embedded and SME server applications.
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