Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!udel!burdvax!dvnspc1!gary From: gary@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Gary Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Borland International Message-ID: <838@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM> Date: 24 Oct 89 18:19:28 GMT References: Organization: Unisys Corporation, Devon, PA Lines: 33 In article Hokkun Pang writes: > I've been a happy Borland user for a long time now. I have TP 3, 4, 5, 5.5. > TC 2, TA 1, TD 1, Quattro, SideKnick Plus, Eureka, and have used others as > well. So naturally, it's nice to know who are the people that made all these > possible. Who founded Borland and who're the cheif architects of these > products? Anyone know? I believe that Borland was founded by a native of France, Phillipe Kahn, who came to the US and made his millions starting with TP3 and Sidekick. Very much like Osborne (of Paperback Software), Kahn believed that he could make a profit selling quality software at a reasonable price (for the "common man"). He was right. My understanding is that Turbo C is a highly modified version of Wizard C, the offspring of a now defunct software firm (Wizard Software). Kahn bought all rights to the compiler from Wizard, added the nifty interactive environment, and now the debugger. Kahn's base is California. He is branching out to capture the corporate user base, with things like Paradox (Kahn bought the company) and Quattro and Sprint. The prices of his recent offerings show his new emphasis. Too bad, if he forgets the little guy who made him rich. -- ======================================================================== Gary L. Barrett My employer may or may not agree with my opinions. And I may or may not agree with my employer's opinions. ========================================================================