|As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 21, 2002
|--------------------------------------------------------------------
|Registration Statement No. 333-                                     
|                                                                    

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

---

FORM S-8REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDERTHE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

---

BORLAND SOFTWARE CORPORATION(Exact name of registrant as specified in
its charter)

---

|                                                               |  |                                     
|-------------------------------------------------------------- |  | ------------------------------------
|Delaware                                                       |  | 94-2895440                          
|(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |  | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

100 ENTERPRISE WAYSCOTTS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA 95066-3249(Address of
principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Borland Software Corporation 2002 Stock Incentive Plan
Borland Software Corporation 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
 (Full title of the Plan(s))

---

Keith E. Gottfried, Esq.Senior Vice President-Law and Corporate
Affairs, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Legal OfficerBorland Software Corporation100
Enterprise WayScotts Valley, California 95066-3249 (Name and address of agent for service)

(831) 431-1000(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for
service)

|CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE                                                           
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|                                                                                          
|Title Of Securities To Be Registered                                                      
|                                                                                          
|Borland Software Corporation2002 Stock Incentive PlanCommon Stock, $0.01 par value        
|                                                                                          
|Borland Software Corporation1999 Employee Stock Purchase PlanCommon Stock, $0.01 par value
|                                                                                          
|                                                                                          
|                                                                                          
|                                                                                          

|(1) | This Registration Statement shall also cover (i) any
additional shares of Common Stock and (ii) the associated purchase rights
relating to the Registrants Series D Junior Participating Preferred Stock
under the Stockholder Rights Plan, dated October 26, 2001
attributable to these registered shares which become issuable under the Borland
Software Corporation 2002 Stock Incentive Plan and
the Borland Software Corporation 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan by reason of
any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or
other similar transaction effected without the Registrants receipt of
consideration which results in an increase in the number of
the outstanding shares of the Registrants Common Stock.
|--- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

|(2) | Calculated solely for purposes of this offering under Rule 457(h) of the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, on the basis of the average of the high and low selling prices per
share of the Registrants Common Stock on May 21, 2002, as reported by the Nasdaq
Stock Market.
|--- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

---

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

| | Item
3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
| | -----------------------------------------------

| | Borland
Software Corporation (the Registrant) hereby incorporates by reference into
this Registration Statement the following documents previously filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the Commission): | 
| | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| |  | (a) | The
Registrants Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001
filed with the Commission on March 29, 2002, pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the 1934 Act); | 
| |  | --- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| |  | (b) | The Registrants Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March
31, 2002 filed with the Commission on May 13, 2002; | 
| |  | --- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| |  | (c) | The Registrants Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on January
22, 2002 and March 15, 2002; | 
| |  | --- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| |  | (d) | The Registrants Registration Statement on Form 10 filed with the
Commission on July 29, 1987, and any other amendments or
reports filed for the purpose of updating such description, in which there is described
the terms, rights and provisions applicable to the Registrants Common Stock, and; | 
| |  | --- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| |  | (e) | The Registrants Registration Statement No. 000-16096 on Form 8-A filed with the
Commission on October 31, 2001, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose
of updating such description, in which there is described the terms, rights and
provisions applicable to the Registrants Series D Junior Participating Preferred
Stock. | 
| |  | --- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | All
reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a),
13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act after the date of this Registration Statement and prior
to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered
hereby have been sold or which de-registers all securities then remaining unsold shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a document
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be
modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a
statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed document which also is deemed to
be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such
statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or
superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement. | 
| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | Item
4. Description of Securities
| | ---------------------------------

| | Not
applicable. | 
| | --------------- | 

| | Item 5.
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
| | ----------------------------------------------

| | Not
applicable. | 
| | --------------- | 

| | Item
6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
| | -------------------------------------------------

| | Section
145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended (the DGCL), authorizes
a corporation to indemnify a director or officer in any action against him, by reason of
the fact that he or she is a director or officer, against expenses, including attorneys
fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement by him if he acted in good faith and
in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation, and, with respect to an action by or in the right of the corporation, he is
not adjudged to be liable for negligence
or misconduct in the performance of his duty to the corporation. While the relevant
statute does not | 
| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

II-1

---

| | change a directors duty of care, it enables corporations to
limit available relief to equitable remedies such as an injunction or rescission. The
statute has no effect on a directors duty of loyalty, acts or omissions not in good
faith or involving intentional misconduct or knowing violations of law, illegal payment
of dividends and approval of any transaction from which the director derives an improper
personal benefit. | 
| | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | The
Registrant has adopted provisions in its Restated Certificate of Incorporation which
provide that each person who is or was a director or officer of the Registrant or who is
or was serving at the request of the Registrant as a director, officer, employee or agent
of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall be
indemnified by the Registrant to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL. The By-Laws of
the Registrant provide that the Registrant, to the maximum extent permitted by the DGCL,
shall have the power to indemnify any of its agents against expenses, judgments, fines,
settlements and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any
proceeding or potential proceeding arising out of the relationship and, to the maximum
extent permitted by law, the Registrant shall have the power to advance the agents
reasonable defense expenses in any such proceeding. | 
| | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | The
Registrant maintains, on behalf of its directors and officers, insurance protection
against certain liabilities arising out of the discharge of their duties, as well as
insurance covering the Registrant for indemnification payments made to its directors and
officers for certain liabilities. The premiums for such insurance are paid by the
Registrant. | 
| | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | The
Registrants Board of Directors has approved, and the Registrant has entered into,
certain agreements (the Indemnification Agreements) with its directors and
certain of its officers. In addition, the Board has authorized the Registrant to enter
into similar agreements with future directors and officers and has declared it the policy
of the Registrant to enter into such agreements. | 
| | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | Each
Indemnification Agreement provides, in effect, that the Registrant shall indemnify the
director or officer whenever the Registrant is legally permitted to do so. Directors and
officers must be found to have met the relevant standards of conduct to be entitled to
indemnification. If, pursuant to the Indemnification Agreements or otherwise, the
Registrant is required to make payments in respect of its indemnification obligations in
excess of or not covered by the Registrants officers and directors
liability insurance, such payments could materially adversely affect the Registrant. | 
| | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | Item
7. Exemption from Registration Claimed
| | -------------------------------------------

| | Not
applicable. | 
| | --------------- | 

| | Item 8.
Exhibits
| | ----------------

| | Exhibit No. | Exhibit | 
| | ----------- | ------- | 

| | 4.1 | Instruments Defining the Rights of Stockholders. Reference is made to
Registrants  Registration  Statement  on Form 10 and Registration Statement No. 000-16096 on Form 8-A,
together with any amendments and exhibits thereto, which are incorporated
herein by reference pursuant to Items 3(d) and 3(e). | 
| | --- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 

| | 5.1 | Opinion and consent of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP. * | 
| | --- | --------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | 23.1 | Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Accountants. * | 
| | ---- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | 23.2 | Consent of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP is contained in Exhibit 5.1. | 
| | ---- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | 24.1 | Power of Attorney. Reference is made to page II-4 of this Registration
Statement. | 
| | ---- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | 99.1 | Borland Software Corporation 2002 Stock Incentive Plan.* | 
| | ---- | -------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | 99.2 | Borland Software Corporation 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. * | 
| | ---- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | * filed herewith | 
| | ---------------- | 

II-2

---

| | Item
9. Undertakings
| | --------------------

| | A.
       The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes: (1) to file, during any period in which
offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:
(i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the 1933 Act, (ii) to
reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of this
Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which,
individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set
forth in this Registration Statement and (iii) to include any material information with
respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration
Statement or any material change to such information in this Registration Statement;
provided, however, that clauses (1)(i) and (1)(ii) shall not apply if the information
required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those clauses is contained in
periodic reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
1934 Act that are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement; (2) that for
the purpose of determining any liability under the 1933 Act each such post-effective
amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
initial bona fide offering thereof; and (3) to remove from registration by means of a
post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the Registrants 2002 Stock Incentive Plan and 1999 Employee Stock
Purchase Plan. | 
| | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 

| | B.
       The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the 1933 Act, each filing of the Registrants annual report pursuant
to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the 1934 Act that is incorporated by reference into
this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to
the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. | 
| | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | C.
       Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 1933 Act may be permitted to
directors, officers or controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the
indemnification provisions summarized in Item 6 or otherwise, the Registrant has been
advised that, in the opinion of the Commission, such indemnification is against public
policy as expressed in the 1933 Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a
claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer, or controlling person of
the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by
such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been
settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the
question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the
1933 Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. | 
| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

II-3

---

SIGNATURES

| | Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies
that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing
on Form S-8, and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Scotts Valley, State of
California on this 21st day of May, 2002. | 
| | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | BORLAND SOFTWARE CORPORATION
| | ----------------------------

| | By: | /s/ Keith E. Gottfried                                                                                                         
| | --- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |     |                                                                                                                                
| |     | Keith E. GottfriedSenior Vice PresidentLaw and Corporate Affairs,
General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Legal Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

| | KNOW
ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned officers and directors of Borland
Software Corporation, a Delaware corporation, do hereby constitute and appoint Keith E.
Gottfried, Senior Vice PresidentLaw and Corporate Affairs, General Counsel,
Corporate Secretary and Chief Legal Officer, and Frederick A. Ball, Executive Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer, and each of them, the lawful attorneys-in-fact and
agents with full power and authority to do any and all acts and things and to execute any
and all instruments which said attorneys and agents, and any one of them, determine may be
necessary or advisable or required to enable said corporation to comply with the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any rules or regulations or requirements of the
Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with this Registration Statement. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing power and authority, the powers granted include
the power and authority to sign the names of the undersigned officers and directors in the
capacities indicated below to this Registration Statement, to any and all amendments, both
pre-effective and post-effective, and supplements to this Registration Statement, and to
any and all instruments or documents filed as part of or in conjunction with this
Registration Statement or amendments or supplements thereof, and each of the undersigned
hereby ratifies and confirms that all said attorneys and agents, or any one of them, shall
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This Power of Attorney may be signed in several
counterparts. | 
| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney as of the
date indicated. | 
| | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement
has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated on May 15,
2002. | 
| | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| |                      
| | ---------------------
| | Signature            
| |                      
| |                      
| | /s/ Dale L. Fuller   
| |                      
| | Dale L. Fuller       
| |                      
| | /s/ Frederick A. Ball
| |                      
| | Frederick A. Ball    
| |                      

II-4

---

| |                        
| | -----------------------
| | Signature              
| |                        
| |                        
| | /s/ William F. Miller  
| |                        
| | William F. Miller      
| |                        
| | /s/ Robert H. Kohn     
| |                        
| | Robert H. Kohn         
| |                        
| | /s/ Robert H. Dickerson
| |                        
| | Robert Dickerson       
| |                        
| | /s/ William K. Hooper  
| |                        
| | William K. Hooper      
| |                        
| | /s/ Laura S. Unger     
| |                        
| | Laura S. Unger         

II-5

---

EXHIBIT INDEX

| | Exhibit No. | Exhibit | 
| | ----------- | ------- | 

| | 4.1 | Instruments Defining the Rights of Stockholders. Reference is made to
Registrants  Registration  Statement  on Form 10 and Registration Statement No. 000-16096 on Form 8-A,
together with any amendments and exhibits thereto, which are incorporated
herein by reference pursuant to Items 3(d) and 3(e). | 
| | --- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 

| | 5.1 | Opinion and consent of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP. * | 
| | --- | --------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | 23.1 | Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Accountants. * | 
| | ---- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | 23.2 | Consent of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP is contained in Exhibit 5.1. | 
| | ---- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | 24.1 | Power of Attorney. Reference is made to page II-4 of this Registration
Statement. | 
| | ---- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | 99.1 | Borland Software Corporation 2002 Stock Incentive Plan.* | 
| | ---- | -------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | 99.2 | Borland Software Corporation 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. * | 
| | ---- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | 

| | * filed herewith | 
| | ---------------- |