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8 unusual facts about Borland


Adam Bosworth

Prior to Microsoft, Bosworth worked for Borland where he developed the Quattro spreadsheet application following Borland's acquisition of Analytica in 1985 - founded by Bosworth and Eric Michelman, and managed by Brad Silverberg.

Bill Curtis

TeraQuest was acquired by Borland Software Corporation in 2005, where he became the Chief Process Officer.

Bold for Delphi

Unfortunately the framework is not for sale any more as Borland bought BoldSoft and then put it on hold.

Borland Enterprise Server

Borland Enterprise Server, also known as Borland Application Server, was Borland's Java EE Application Server.

Brio Technology

The DataPivot code was later sold in the early 90's to Borland and integrated into Quattro Pro.

CIX

It hosted several official online support areas for companies such as Borland and Novell and counted among its subscribers many of the UK's technology journalists (some of them wooed with free accounts), which ensured regular mention in the computing press.

Peter Coad

Coad became senior vice president and chief strategist of Borland Software Corp. when Borland bought TogetherSoft in January 2003.

Runtime error 200

Runtime error 200 is the standard error message by Borland's Pascal compilers, standing for Division by zero.


Ability Office

The framework for the entire suite was changed from Borland's Object Windows Library to Microsoft Foundation Class Library resulting in better performance and the database was re-written to use the Microsoft Jet Database Engine.

Alexander Shields

On 3 March 1689, with Thomas Lining and William Boyd, he took part in a solemn renewing of the covenants by a concourse of people at Borland Hill, parish of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire.

Aqris

The company was known in the Java developer community for its product RefactorIT, an open source refactor plugin for Java IDEs (Eclipse, Sun ONE Studio, Borland Software's JBuilder, Oracle's JDeveloper, NetBeans and Emacs).

BGI

Borland Graphics Interface, a graphics library included with many Borland compiler products in the 1990s

Big Dumb Face

Wes Borland set the project to the side once he quit Limp Bizkit in 2001 to start up progressive metal outfit Eat the Day, but once Eat the Day fell through and Borland briefly rejoined Limp Bizkit in late 2004, Borland recorded and wrote a new Big Dumb Face thrash/death metal song called "Darkness Becomes", which was available on Borland's website, but now is available on the Big Dumb Face website.

Black Light Burns

On February 4, 2012, Wes Borland announced new album titled The Moment You Realize You're Going to Fall for a September/October 2012 release.

Borland Turbo Debugger

Although Borland's Turbo Pascal (TP) had useful single-stepping and conditional breakpoint facilities, the need for a more powerful debugger became apparent when TP started to be used for serious development.

Carl Ben Eielson

Eielson died alongside his mechanic Earl Borland in an air crash on November 9, 1929, in Siberia while attempting to evacuate furs and personnel from the Nanuk, a cargo vessel trapped in the ice at North Cape (Mys Schmidt on today's maps).

Colin Pearson, Baron Pearson

Born in Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada, he was the youngest child of lawyer Ernest William Pearson (1861–1936) and Jessie née Borland (died 1948).

CSharpBuilder

C#Builder's functionality has since been incorporated into Borland's Delphi and C#Builder is no longer developed as a separate application.

C#Builder, from Borland Software Corporation, is a computer program that allows programmers to create Microsoft Windows and Web applications for the Microsoft .NET Framework using the programming language C#.

Graphics32

Graphics32 is a free graphics library for Borland Delphi and Kylix optimized for 32-bit pixel formats which is licensed under the Mozilla Public License.

Lands of Bogston

Robert Montgomerie Borland as the only son of Robert Wilson Montgomery's sister Mary Borland, married Charlotte Roche and their son Robert Borland Montgomerie, having taken his grand-uncle's surname, inherited Bogston but lived at Malmedy in Prussia and only visited once in 1842.

Reeve Aleutian Airways

Reeve, along with Merritt Boyle and Bill Borland began flying between Seattle and Anchorage, with stops at Juneau, Yakutat or Annette Island.

Software developer

Some of the notable software people include Peter Norton (developer of Norton Utilities), Richard Garriott (Ultima-series creator), and Philippe Kahn (Borland key founder), all of whom started as entrepreneurial individual or small-team software developers.

Solon Borland

In 1962, the town of Frenchport, Arkansas, began hosting "Solon Borland Daze," a community festival dedicated to recalling the life and achievements of the U.S. senator and his French-Creole mistress, after whom the town is named.

Starfish Software

Starfish Software was founded in 1994 by Philippe Kahn (and his wife Sonia Lee), as a spin-off from the Simplify business unit from Borland and Kahn's severance from Borland.

Tom Borland

Thomas Bruce "Spike" Borland (February 14, 1933 – March 2, 2013) was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1960 through 1961 for the Boston Red Sox.

Turbo Modula-2

Instead, a group including Borland cofounder Niels Jensen, acting as Jensen and Partners, bought the unreleased codebase and redeveloped and released it as TopSpeed Modula-2.

Turbo Modula-2 was both a compiler and an Integrated Development Environment for the Modula-2 programming language running on MS-DOS, developed by Borland, but never released by them.


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