Inprise Corporation Announces Strategic Alliance With Sun Microsystems; Companies Collaborate on Java Application Development Tools for the Solaris Operating Environment
Business Editors & Computer Technology Writers
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 1998--Inprise Corporation
(NASDAQ:INPR) announced today that it has entered into a strategic
alliance with Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) to team Inprise's
development technologies with the Sun Solaris(TM) operating
environment. Corporations will be able to take advantage of Inprise's
familiar and graphically appealing tools for building and running
enterprise applications on the robust and scalable Solaris operating
environment. Today's announcement was made in a keynote address by Dr.
Alan Baratz, president of Java Software at Sun Microsystems, to the
3,000 IT attendees of the annual Inprise Conference, ICON '98, being
held here this week.
Sun and Inprise will be working together to bring Inprise's development technology to the Sun Solaris operating environment. "Because Inprise is targeting vertical industries -- like financial and telecommunications -- that employ large-scale,
transaction-oriented applications, the Solaris operating environment
is critical to us. And, by teaming with Sun, we can tap the power of
two companies to serve our customers more effectively," said Zack
Urlocker, Inprise's vice president of marketing.
"Sun is dedicated to making the Solaris operating environment more appealing to all enterprise software developers," said Doug Kaewert, vice president, market development, Sun Microsystems. "Collaborating with Inprise's popular development tools goes a long way to furthering the goal of making the Solaris operating environment the market leader for developers of enterprise-wide applications utilizing Java(TM) technology."
The strategic alliance announced today is one of several ongoing
initiatives between Sun Microsystems and Inprise. "We've selected to
work with Inprise on these projects because of its reputation as a
premier provider of enterprise development tools and middleware," said
Dr. Baratz at today's conference.
Sun Users Shift to VisiBroker ORBs
Through a series of marketing programs, the two companies will
continue to migrate Sun customers to Inprise's award-winning
VisiBroker object request broker (ORB). Earlier this year, Sun
Microsystems announced a migration services agreement to transition
users of the full-featured Solaris NEO(TM) ORB, to Visigenic's
VisiBroker for Java and VisiBroker for C++ ORB technology. Visigenic
Software, the leading supplier of ORBs, was subsequently acquired by
Inprise in February 1998. To meet the unique, mission-critical needs
of these users, Sun Microsystems and Inprise are now providing
consulting as well as documentation that maps key NEO features to
VisiBroker features to streamline the transition between ORBs. Since
the beginning of the year, Inprise has marketed VisiBroker to
established Sun Microsystems customers. Many companies, including
British Telecom, Royal Danish Navy, and NetGenics, have successfully
made the transition from NEO to the VisiBroker ORB.
Additional details on this cooperative effort between Sun
Microsystems and Inprise will be announced in coming months.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer(TM)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of high-quality hardware, software, and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $9.5 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com.
About Inprise Corporation
Inprise Corporation is a leading provider of software and
services that simplify the complexity of enterprise application
development, deployment, and management. The company is distinguished
for its award-winning Borland family of rapid application development
products and for proven scalable middleware. Inprise integrates these
offerings with application management products to provide customers
with end-to-end solutions. Inprise customers include leading
enterprises and independent software developers around the world.
Founded in 1983, Inprise is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California
and has operations around the world. Inprise has more than 900
employees worldwide. For more information on Inprise, customers can
visit the company's Web site at inprise.com.
Forward looking statements in this release, including but not limited to, those concerning Inprise's future financial performance,
product availability dates, and the potential 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: difficulties
in integrating the operations and technology of Visigenic Software or
other companies or technologies which the Company may acquire,
possible disruptive effects of organizational or personnel changes,
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 growth rates in the client/server and
Internet software markets, and other factors described in the
Company's S.E.C. reports on forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, and the Inprise
prospectus relating to the acquisition of Visigenic Software.
Notes to Editors: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Java, NEO and "The Network Is The Computer" are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States
and other countries.
Inprise product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Inprise Corporation. Other product names mentioned herein may be
trademarks of the party using such names.
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CONTACT: Inprise Corporation, Scotts Valley
Brett Smith, 831/431-1341
bsmith@inprise.com
or
Burson Marsteller (for Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
Marty O'Loughlin, 650/287-4004
marty_o'loughlin@bm.com
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