Borland's prices were much cheaper. Check the price list[0] from 1997, when the original BCB was made. The cheapest (Standard, the version that i used in the li

Borland's prices were much cheaper. Check the price list[0] from 1997, when the original BCB was made. The cheapest (Standard, the version that i used in the linked blog post) was only $99.95 (which remained the same until around 2003 and BCB5). Nowadays the cheapest is $1599[1]. Delphi also had similar prices. In comparison Microsoft's prices for Visual C++ 97 were much higher, at least according to this old post[2]. The cheapest might have been $99 like Borland's but that was for the learning edition which could only be used by students for non-commercial purposes (Borland's $99 versions of Delphi and BCB did not have that restriction) and the next cheapest was $499 - practically five times more expensive. [0] http://web.archive.org/web/19970605053133/http://www.borland.com/bcppbuilder/ordering/ http://web.archive.org/web/19970605053133/http://www.borland... [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20230220010556/https://www.embarcadero.com/app-development-tools-store/cbuilder http://web.archive.org/web/20230220010556/https://www.embarc... [2] https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/microsoft-sets-pricing-visual-studio-97 https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/microsoft-sets-pricing...