We got Access, Visual Studio, and .Net / C# as a direct result.
Borland faded into obscurity.
Hard not to feel like there will be a parallel here.
Both of which have been run as largely seperate entities.
The point of the comment wasn't the specific date, it was the impact of hiring a competitor's team AND equipping that team to be even more impactful.
In 1990 they poached Brad Silverberg who then spent the next 7 years poaching all of Borland's top talent in the most prominent example of a competitive 'brain drain' strategy that I'm aware of.
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Borland-Says-Microso...
I really think you don't know what you are talking about. Delphi 7 was released in 2002 and you were "in high school in the early 2000s". We all love a good narrative, but yours has no base to belong to.