Borland sues Microsoft

Alleging Microsoft is luring its employees away to seek unfair advantages,Borland sued the Redmond, Washington computer giant on Wednesday. The suitclaims that Microsoft has stolen 34 of Borland's engineers in the lasttwo and a half years and that the company did this purposefully to preventBorland from competing. Borland's financial problems are almost legendary:despite the clear superiority of its tools over similar offerings fromMicrosoft, Borland has been hemorrhaging cash for the past two years. Inthemost recent quarter, Borland lost $42.5 million. Sales fell to $37 millionfrom $70 million in the same quarter a year ago.

"Borland is in the middle of major turnaround that will return our company to financial health and rapid business growth," said Borland CEO, DelbertYocam. "We must protect ourselves from what we believe is a systematic and unfair effort to impair our company's ability to compete and continue to deliver leading development tools that support open industry standards."

Even if the courts rule in Borland's favor, it may be too late. Hopefully,something good will come out of this