| | Exhibit
3.3 | 
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| | CERTIFICATE
OF ELIMINATION OF THE SERIES C CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCKOFBORLAND SOFTWARE
CORPORATION | 
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| | (Pursuant
to Section 151(g) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware) | 
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| | Borland
Software Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the Corporation), | 
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| | DOES
HEREBY CERTIFY: | 
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| | FIRST:
That the Certificate of Designation of the Corporation filed on June 8, 1999, as
corrected on June 10, 1999, and constituting part of the Corporations Restated
Certificate of Incorporation, authorizes the issuance of 625 shares of Series C
Convertible Preferred Stock. | 
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| | SECOND:
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 151(g) of the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware, on October 22, 2003, at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Corporation duly called and held, the Board of Directors of the Corporation adopted the
following resolutions: | 
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| | RESOLVED,
that none of the authorized shares of the Series C Convertible Preferred Stock are
outstanding and none of the authorized shares of the Series C Convertible Preferred Stock
will be issued subject to the Certificate of Designation; and further | 
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| | RESOLVED,
that the Secretary of the Corporation is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to
execute, in the name of and behalf of the Corporation, a Certificate of Elimination
pursuant to Section 151(g) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and in
accordance with Section 103 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,
substantially in the form attached as an exhibit to these resolutions, with such changes
therein as the Secretary may approve and as permitted by the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware to be made by such officer, such approval to be conclusively
evidenced by the Secretarys execution of such Certificate of Elimination, and to
file the same forthwith in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware,
and when such Certificate of Elimination becomes effective, all references to the Series
C Convertible Preferred Stock set forth in the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
the Corporation shall be eliminated and the shares previously designated as Series C
Convertible Preferred Stock shall resume the status of authorized and unissued shares of
Preferred Stock of the Corporation, without designation as to series. | 
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| | THIRD:
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 151(g) of the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware, all references to the Series C Convertible Preferred Stock in the Restated
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation hereby are eliminated, and the shares
that were designated to each such series hereby are returned to the status of authorized
but unissued shares of the Preferred Stock of the Corporation, without designation as to
series. | 
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| | IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, said Borland Software Corporation has caused this Certificate to be
executed in its corporate name this 24th day of October, 2003. | 
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| | BORLAND SOFTWARE CORPORATION | 
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| | By:  /S/ TIMOTHY STEVENS | 
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| | Name:
Timothy Stevens | 
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| | Title:
Senior Vice President, GeneralCounsel and Corporate Secretary | 
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