Last year IBM bought Borland competitor Rational Software , but Fuller thinks customers still want a tools company that isn't controlled by a giant.

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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.

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Once-great software houses like Lotus, WordPerfect and Borland are mere shadows of their former selves.

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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.

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