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People forgot the Ashton-Tate merger, which destroyed Borland's internal culture and saddled it with products that were almost impossible to move to a WYSIWYG m
by nyrikki 2y ago
People forgot the Ashton-Tate merger, which destroyed Borland's internal culture and saddled it with products that were almost impossible to move to a WYSIWYG model.
They were targeting both Windows and OS/2 for the GUI implementations they did deliver with much reduced budgets.
Microsoft buying FoxPro and introducing preditory pricing also didn't help.
Neither did MS sniping the Quattero team.
Add in Philippe Kahn and the Borland board fighting on direction didn't help.
The company simply was troubled and didn't have the resources to port anything besides Pascal, which as one of the teaching languages of the day, was easier to justify.