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American PC software company founded by Philippe Kahn in 1983 — which produced Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and briefly acquired Ashton-Tate and its dBase database — competing directly with Microsoft before declining in the 1990s.
American entrepreneur who co-founded Oracle — the dominant enterprise database company — and built it through relentless sales aggression, competitive brinksmanship, and a genuine technical conviction that relational databases would become the core infrastructure of every large organization.
French-American entrepreneur who founded Borland International — the PC software company that competed with Microsoft through Turbo Pascal, dBase, and Lotus 1-2-3 — and who invented the camera phone by connecting his digital camera to a mobile phone at his daughter's birth in 1997.