Thankfully their developer tools should survive after they sold them to Embarcadero. I'll never understand why they thought the company would prosper without them.

So, farewell then Borland

You made Turbo Pascal

Which was like Pascal

But Turbo

And let's not forget what *kind* of software house.

One that makes COBOL compilers for mainframes.

The smiley is dedicated to all the old geezers (and geezettes) everywhere who are laughing their collective asses off at this.

http://pgregg.com/blog/2009/05/borland-farewell-my-sweet.html

ah, years ago I worked with the MicroFocus folks and thought they were very smart and had their heads screwed on - even then there was still a huge demand for COBOL on various platforms.

a decade later watching them mop up the remains of trendy but sadly confused players makes me wonder if I should brush off my old COBOL skills as a hobby!

Mines the one with IEDP in the pocket