Once-great software houses like Lotus, WordPerfect and Borland are mere shadows of their former selves.
Hazel Borland, executive nurse director, said NHS Dumfries and Galloway welcomed the report.
But Federation of Small Businesses public affairs chief Colin Borland said the levy was backed by 74% of his members.
Farther down the hall, Open Kernel and CohesiveFT, a cloud-computing firm run by Patrick Kerpan, ex-CTO of software icon Borland, run larger operations.
Last year IBM bought Borland competitor Rational Software , but Fuller thinks customers still want a tools company that isn't controlled by a giant.
"You have to believe that what they're doing is a failure or you have to believe that African-American and Latino kids are less gifted, " Mr. Borland said.
Netscape, Lotus, Borland, Word Perfect etc fell one by one.
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"They can keep switching tests from now until doomsday and it's not going to make a difference, " said James Borland, a professor at Teachers College at Columbia University.
"We have been contacted by a few clients so far, " says Alison Borland, vice president of retirement solutions and strategies at Aon Hewitt, which advises larger 401(k) plans.
Borland told me I had to figure out three reasons someone should hire me, and put that at the top of the page in the form of a summary.
The argument makes sense, but some question whether Borland, which has been around for 20 years, can continue to be independent in a world increasingly standardized by giant multinational companies.
"Any time you get into the entertainment space, it's a high-risk proposition because customers are so fickle, " said Walt Borland, president and CEO of the Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization.
Colin Borland from the Federation of Small Businesses warned of repeating the mistakes of the past by allowing the Scottish economy to be reliant on a small number of large employers.
In order to reach a lot of customers quickly, Fortify has allied itself with Borland, which makes a widely used set of programming tools and will now sell Fortify to security-minded customers.
"Test preparation really does help, and wealthier families are able to provide that for their kids whereas poor ones aren't, " said James Borland, an education professor at Teachers College at Columbia University.
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Somebody already has, according to established developer-tools companies such as Borland (nasdaq: BORL - news - people ) and IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ).
That line did what both Borland and Wolkstein wanted me to do: It invited the reader to be interested in me, and it sold me as someone who could produce a substantial piece of work on an intriguing topic.
The steering committee was made up of Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Borland, IBM, AMD, Accenture, and Intel, and the dilemma was cast as follows: vendors want their own shows or vertical events that attract particular buyer segments.
Over the past several years, Fuller has steered Borland's products beyond purely engineering-orientated products (the software compliers and debuggers that, along with other tools, make up the so-called integrated development environment) to include tools for project managers, some of who may not be directly involved in code writing.
The biggest potential beneficiaries are people who expect to be in a higher tax bracket later in life, such as people "who are younger, earlier in their careers and not at their peak earnings today, " along with people between jobs with a lull in income, Aon Hewitt's Ms. Borland says.
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