I really don't agree and I don't think creating a product in the same category is "me-too".
Borland had some truly great products back in the day. Quattro Pro had innovations that surpassed the incumbent 1-2-3's. Paradox had innovations that superseded dBASE. Turbo Pascal was a popular product on its own merit (UCSD Pascal, Quick/MS Pascal never caught on commercially). Turbo C and Quick C were competitors, and many applications back in the day used the Turbo Vision text UI.
In the 1980s and early 90s, the marketplace was full of competing office products before Microsoft Office came around and dominated then scene (folks might remember Lotus SmartSuite and Corel WordPerfect Office).
Spreadsheets weren't always synonymous Excel, nor word processors with Word.
Which should help you understand my perspective better. I don’t agree that Borland “had very little except "me too" products“ just because another product in the same category existed first. Lotus 1-2-3 was essentially a clone of VisiCalc on the IBM PC but it was also its own thing.
Borland had some truly great products back in the day. Quattro Pro had innovations that surpassed the incumbent 1-2-3's. Paradox had innovations that superseded dBASE. Turbo Pascal was a popular product on its own merit (UCSD Pascal, Quick/MS Pascal never caught on commercially). Turbo C and Quick C were competitors, and many applications back in the day used the Turbo Vision text UI.
In the 1980s and early 90s, the marketplace was full of competing office products before Microsoft Office came around and dominated then scene (folks might remember Lotus SmartSuite and Corel WordPerfect Office).
Spreadsheets weren't always synonymous Excel, nor word processors with Word.