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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Ab Initio (company), Altova, AppForge, AutomatedQA, Borland, CAST Application Intelligence Platform, CodeFutures, CodeGear, Code Synthesis, CoffeeCup Software, Datanamic, Denodo, Devart, GrapeCity, Green Hat (software company), IAmaze, Informatica, Itko, JackBe, Jargon Software, JetBrains, Klocwork, Kovair Software, Inc., MuleSoft, Northwest Synergistic Software, Optimyth Software, Ounce Labs, Parasoft, Pervasive Software, Pramati Technologies, Registryasp, Replay Solutions, RISC OS Open, Seapine Software, Semantic Web Company, Serena Software, SnapLogic, SofCheck Inspector, Tek-Tools Software, The Beck Group, ThoughtSpeed Corporation, TXT e-solutions. Excerpt: Borland Software Corporation is a software company first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, then in Cupertino, California, and finally in Austin, Texas. It is now a Micro Focus subsidiary. It was founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn. Three Danish citizens, Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, and Mogens Glad, founded Borland Ltd. in August 1981 to develop products like Word Index for the CP/M operating system using an off-the-shelf company. However, response to the company's products at the CP/M-82 show in San Francisco showed that a U.S. company would be needed to reach the American market. They met Philippe Kahn, who had just moved to Silicon Valley, and who had been a key developer of the Micral. The three Danes had embarked, at first successfully, on marketing software first from Denmark, and later from Ireland, before running into some challenges at the time when they met Philippe Kahn. The partnership seems to have benefited all involved. Philippe Kahn was at all times Chairman, President, and CEO of Borland Inc. from its inception in 1983 until he left in 1995. Main shareholders at the incorporation of Borland were Niels Jensen (250,000 shares), Ole Henriksen (160,000), Mogens Glad (100,000), and Philippe Kahn (80,000). Borland successfully launched a series of blockbusters that included Turbo Pascal, SideKick, SuperKey, and Lightning, all developed in Denmark. According to the London IPO filings, the management team was Philippe Kahn as President, Spencer Ozawa as VP of Operations, Marie Bourget as CFO, and Spencer Leyton as VP of business development, while all software development was continuing to take place in Denmark and later London as the Danish co-founders moved there. While the Danes remained majority shareholders, board members included Philippe Kahn, Tim Berry, John Nash, and David Heller. With the assistance of John Nash and David Heller, both British members of the Borland Board, the company was taken pu
