(PR NEWSWIRE) Inprise to Supply Ericsson for Network Management Integration
Inprise to Supply Ericsson for Network Management Integration
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ --
Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq: INPR) today announced that Ericsson has selected
VisiBroker CORBA technology as a key part of its Operation Support System
(OSS). Inprise's industry-standard Object Request Broker will form the basis
of the future architecture within Ericsson's OSS products for managing both
GSM networks and forthcoming broadband CDMA networks.
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"One goal of the OSS product is to provide a framework with a single
integrated view of a mobile network that consists of numerous types of network
elements," commented Per-Arne Nilsson, strategic project manager at Ericsson.
"Ericsson early on decided to adopt an industry standard approach. To further
strengthen our commitment to the CORBA technology, the choice of VisiBroker
was the most appropriate."
As operators look to upgrade their mobile phone network infrastructure,
they need to provide an industrial strength way of ensuring network
availability and performance. Ericsson is at the forefront of developing
systems to ensure that mobile Internet access will be as solid and reliable as
the landline approach.
"Our ability to deliver high standards of support and responsiveness was
instrumental in Ericsson's choice of Inprise for the project," commented
Gidi Schmidt, VP of Europe for Inprise. "We're confident we have the
necessary infrastructure in place to deliver first rate service to Fortune 500
companies through our professional services organization."
The Ericsson OSS is an easy tool for monitoring mobile networks and
responding quickly to network service issues. The goal of OSS is to provide
mobile phone users with the highest quality of service.
VisiBroker is planned to enable Ericsson to specify Integration Reference
Points for various systems, which are defined in Interface Definition
Language. By adopting an industry-standard CORBA implementation, third party
vendors of network management software will be able to integrate their network
management offerings with Ericsson's OSS in a consistent way.
The CORBA architecture allows operators to both manage individual network
nodes, as well as interface with third party management systems from other
equipment vendors. In addition to providing VisiBroker, Inprise is working
with Prism Technology to provide a number of additional CORBA services to
Ericsson.
The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
About Inprise/Borland
Inprise/Borland is a leading provider of Internet access infrastructure
and application development tools and services for all major platforms,
including Linux, Solaris and Windows. Earlier this month, Inprise/Borland
agreed to merge with Corel Corporation. The merger is expected to be
completed in the late spring. Founded in 1983, Inprise/Borland is
headquartered in the Silicon Valley, California, with operations worldwide.
To learn more, visit Inprise/Borland at borland.com, the community
site at community.borland.com or call the company at 800-632-2864.
NOTE: Inprise product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of
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party using such names.
Forward-looking statements in this release, including but not limited to
those concerning Inprise's future market developments, positions in such
markets, future products, product-availability dates, and the potential
performance, features of or benefits to be derived from the Company's
products, involve a number of uncertainties and risks, and actual events or
results may differ materially. Factors that could cause actual events or
results to differ materially include, among others, the following: possible
disruptive effects of organizational or personnel changes in the Company,
shifts in customer demand, market acceptance of the Company's new or enhanced
products, delays in scheduled product-availability dates, actions, or
announcements by competitors, software errors, general business conditions,
and market-development and growth rates in the client/server and
Internet-software markets, and other factors described in the Company's SEC
reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q.
SOURCE Inprise Corporation
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/CONTACT: Brett Smith of Inprise/Borland Corporation, 831-431-1341, or
bsmith@inprise.com; or Barbara Hagin of TSI Communications, 650-635-0200, or
bhagin@tsicomm.com, for Inprise Corporation/
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