Borland International Inc’s restructuring is every bit as severe as forecast, with about 40% of the workforce – 650 people out of 1,700 – to lose their jobs; half of the cuts come in the US. The restructuring will include closure of many distribution operations in Europe, and the company will also close its duplication and packaging plants in the US and Europe and buy the services in. The restructuring is intended to focus the company’s products and resources on the software developer community and align expenses with revenue expectations. It notes that Borland’s roots are as a computer languages and tools company, serving the needs of the software development community: this re-engineering effort is designed to size our organisation appropriately and reflects our renewed commitment to being a leading provider of software development tools. It will maintain principal operations in the UK, Germany, France and Japan, closing or cutting back operations heavily elsewhere. Where it does pull out of a country, its products will be sold through distributors. Borland highlights as its core products the C++ language, dBase, Paradox, and the forthcoming Delphi95 environment.
