Another historical article from the software industry archives about a software development tools pioneer and maverick.
Kahn, former chairman and chief executive of Borland International Inc., first shook the industry like a gale force wind in 1984 with SideKick for $49. He took on what he called the software robber barons who overcharged for their software. Later, he applied similar pricing principles and guerrilla marketing to languages, compilers and spreadsheets.
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