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Borland chairman Philippe Kahn.


BORLAND chairman Philippe Kahn Philippe Kahn (born March 16, 1952)[1] is an American technology innovator and entrepreneur, French-born, known as the founder of Borland, a producer of software development tools for as well as Starfish Software, the creator of the first wireless synchronization  on why his company repriced Quattro Pro A Windows spreadsheet from Corel that provides advanced graphics and presentation capabilities, including goal seeking, 3D graphing and the ability to create multi-layered slide shows. It is optionally keystroke compatible with Lotus 1-2-3.  at $49: "Microsoft has been waging this incredible price war on the industry by focusing everybody on suites. What we have done is to reinvent re·in·vent  
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1. To make over completely: "She reinvented Indian cooking to fit a Western kitchen and a Western larder" 
 this stand-alone, best-of-breed product by being very aggressive on price." (Quoted in The Wall Street Journal, 10/15/93)
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Title Annotation:Industry Quotes; explaining Borland International Corp.'s decision to reprice its Quattro Pro spreadsheet
Publication:Soft-Letter
Date:Nov 29, 1993
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