Borland never released database structure information, making it hard to migrate the database away. Today Paradox is an obsolete database and shouldn’t be used. When Microsoft bundled Access into Microsoft Office Professional, stand-alone database products like Paradox completely lost their market. When Microsoft lowered the price of its Access database to $99, Borland lost significant revenue. Paradox for Windows was a complete rewrite and delayed to market enough for Microsoft Access to launch earlier. Paradox for DOS was successful in 1980s and 1990s, as it was a very fast database thanks to its caching capabilities, visual query-by-example and innovating programming language PAL. Original Paradox for DOS was released in 1985 by Ansa Software, which was purchased by Borland in 1987.
Paradox is a file database engine currently published by Corel Corporation.
