“Remember Borland, the maker of popular programming software
like C++? Many people think the big California software giant of
the ’80s died in the Microsoft wave several years ago.”
“It had a near-death experience early this year after five years
of declining sale. But it is now back with a new name, Inprise
Corp., and a new gimmick — it is an Internet player and a soldier
in the Linux revolution….”
“Inprise said that since it released its JBuilder 3 Foundation
product on its Web page early in December, Web traffic has jumped
four times.”
“More significantly, demand for a Linux version was double
that for a Windows version.“