Inprise/Borland Beats Oracle by Offering First Enterprise Class Application Server(TM) for Linux(R) Last October
Inprise/Borland Launched Second Generation of Its Popular Application
Server(TM) for Linux(R) Last Monday
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- While other companies were struggling to offer their first application servers for Linux(R), earlier this week, Inprise/Borland (Nasdaq: INPR) delivered the second version of its award-winning Inprise(TM) Application Server(TM) (IAS) and VisiBroker(R) object request broker (ORB) for CORBA(R) to enterprise customers for the Linux, Solaris(TM) and Windows(R) platforms. Inprise/Borland's IAS and VisiBroker products, originally launched in October 1999 for the Linux operating system, have more than 150 Fortune 1000 companies deploying Inprise/Borland's technology.
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Since last October, Inprise/Borland's technology has been providing a solid foundation for customers to deploy industrial-strength Internet-applications with full support for Enterprise JavaBeans(TM) (EJB) and CORBA technology. This technology allows companies whose business models are based around a large number of transactions to closely integrate their existing systems with the new EJB environment. IAS also includes support for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and includes a transaction manager.
"Inprise/Borland is committed to providing our customers with an end-to-end solution for creating, deploying and managing Web-based applications for any platform," said Thomas Torf, vice president and general manager of the Enterprise business unit at Inprise/Borland. "We have been supporting enterprise development on Linux for more than a year now, and will continue to offer the best solutions for our customers."
New features of Inprise Application Server 4.1 include:
-- Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) support
-- Enhanced EJB transaction support with full two-phase commit
-- VisiTransact(TM) -- a high performance transaction manager supporting
JDBC(R) 2.0/XA
-- VisiMessage(TM) -- tightly integrated JMS implementation
-- Advanced object to relational mapping for EJBs
-- Integration support for Thought Inc.'s CocoBase(R) and other 3rd party
O/R mapping tools.
-- Enhanced User Interface for high developer productivity and new wizards
to simplify rolling EJB applications out to multiple containers
More information on other features of Inprise Application Server can be found at borland.com.
About Inprise(TM) Application Server(TM) 4.1
Inprise Application Server is one of the first application servers to combine the benefits of EJB and CORBA. By combining CORBA and EJB technologies into the Inprise Application Server, customers can take advantage of the two major industry standards in enterprise computing, enabling them to easily integrate existing information technology resources with new, powerful Web applications. Leveraging the proven scalability and reliability of VisiBroker 4 enables customers to create e-business applications that can handle the high volumes of transactions required for doing business on the Web.
The Inprise Application Server also provides comprehensive support for the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM)). Inprise/Borland is redefining the value that developers can expect from an application server by combining the open, cross-platform, and cross-language framework of CORBA with the transactional business logic of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology.
Availability
Inprise Application Server is now available on the latest platforms including Windows(R) 2000 and Solaris(TM) 8. For more information, customers should contact their local Inprise/Borland office, distributor or representative. To locate one of our offices, worldwide please visit inprise.com. |
