It has achieved a relative state of popularity and it is considered to be a complete LAN chat program.
[1][2] It has been superseded by commercial products which allow voice chat, video conferencing, central monitoring and administration.
An extension called "BORGVoice" adds word producing chat capabilities to BORGChat, the extension remains in alpha stage.
[3] BORGChat was first published from Ionut Cioflan (nickname "IOn") in 2002.
The Borg collective improves by consuming technologies, in a similar way wishes BORGChat to "assimilate".