Borland, on the other hand, is trying to buy its way up in a mature category, spreadsheets, in which it already has customers. For Borland, however, the spreadsheet business has been pure hell.

But this summer, Borland is offering the program for $100 as an ”upgrade” for anybody who owns a Lotus, Excel, SuperCalc or Quattro spreadsheet program.

Guest blog: Bob Warfield has founded three startups, run R&D at Borland, developed software for Callidus and Oracle and created tools for Rational/Pure Atria. He currently works for SaaS customer ...

When Borland International Inc. cut the price of its Quattro Pro for Windows spreadsheet last fall to $49 from $495, it expected to pick up a few new users of the product, and so the company went t… ...

eWEEK 30: Spreadsheet software from software pioneers such as VisiCalc, Lotus Development, Microsoft and Borland Software helped turn millions of corporate PC users into expert number crunchers.

eWEEK 30: Microsoft, Lotus, Borland and WordPerfect were the major contenders in a 1990s battle for supremacy in the office suite market that Microsoft Office ultimately won.

There were spreadsheet wars in the 1980s, where the front runners were Lotus 1-2-3, Excel, Superplan, and Borland’s Quattro.

Another spreadsheet you may have heard of, Microsoft’s Excel, appeared two years later. The following video describes Lotus 1-2-3 and its early success with the IBM personal computer.

Perhaps a more apt analogy to the Googling of Microsoft would be Philippe Kahn's old Borland. Kahn freaked his software rivals by carpet bombing the world with cut-rate but fully-functioned ...