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Borland largely began the IDE on PCs with their Turbo Pascal product for MS-DOS, followed by thier Turbo C and Turbo Prolog products.

When Windows came to prominence, Borland created Windows based IDEs, including C++ Builder, J Builder, and Delphi.

Recently, Borland spun off its IDE business as a new company called CodeGear. CodeGear offers an assortment of products:

C PlusPlus Builder - Windows based C/C++ compiler and IDE
C Sharp Builder - Windows based C# compiler and IDE
J Builder - Windows based Java compiler and IDE
Delphi 2006 - Windows compiler and IDE for an object oriented version of Pascal
Delphi 2007 - Windows compiler and IDE for an object oriented version of Pascal
Delphi for PHP
Interbase 2007
Turbo -

Credit the open source movement for the spin-off. Borland was affected by consolidation in the language tools market that had been going on for some time.

If you develop solely for Windows, chances are you use Microsoft's VisualStudio IDE and VisualC?++, VisualBASIC?, or C#.

If you develop for anything else, you probably use IBM's Java-based open source Eclipse IDE, and the open source Gnu Compiler suite. You can develop for Windows using GCC as well, with the MingW32? version that uses the Microsoft runtime.

Why should people pay for Borland's products when free, open source solutions were available? Not enough people did, and the language tools division was a drag on Borland's revenues and earnings. After trying unsuccessfully to sell the division, they spun it off as an independant, to sink or swim on its own.

--DMcCunney