To Toy and others of his ilk: This is how things work:
Inprise Offers to License 100% Pure Java Technology to Microsoft; JBuilder Provides
Platform-Independent Solution for Microsoft and its Customers
Business Wire - November 18, 1998 15:39
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1998--Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq: INPR), a premier provider of integration software and services to leading
enterprises, today announced at the Inprise Conference in Tokyo an offer to license its JBuilder 100% Pure Java development tools to Microsoft Corporation
(Nasdaq: MSFT). This offer is in response to a U.S. district court's injunction against Microsoft requiring Microsoft to conform to Sun Microsystems' (Nasdaq:
SUNW) platform-independent 100% Pure Java specification. Financial terms of the offer were not disclosed.
"Inprise is ready to help Microsoft, Sun and customers of both companies obtain the benefit of 100% Pure Java cross-platform technology by licensing our JBuilder
technology to Microsoft," said Del Yocam, Inprise chairman and CEO. "JBuilder has become the leading enterprise development environment for building 100%
Pure Java cross-platform, scalable, open solutions. We recognize that many customers could be adversely impacted by the injunction against Microsoft and
therefore we want to offer a solution that will enable Microsoft to quickly comply with the ruling from the U.S. District Court."
Inprise has worked closely as a partner to both Sun and Microsoft, and was one of the first licensees of Java technology from Sun. Inprise helped Sun develop the
JavaBeans specification and was first to ship a development environment with support for 100% Pure Java and JDK 1.1 in 1997 with the initial release of JBuilder
1.0. Since that time, Inprise has taken a leadership position in its support for open, platform-independent enterprise standards with strong support for Java,
Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) and CORBA.
"Our customers are demanding support for open standards without platform lock-in," said Zack Urlocker, Inprise vice president of marketing. "We believe that Java
and CORBA provide the basis for open solutions that support all enterprise platforms, not just Windows."
Inprise JBuilder
The Inprise JBuilder product family supports Sun's Pure Java industry-standard specifications, including Java Native Interface (JNI), RMI, Java event handling,
JDK 1.1.x, JDK 1.2, JFC/Swing components, JavaBeans, Enterprise JavaBeans, and JDBC - many of which may be issues in developing and deploying
platform-independent Java solutions with Microsoft's Visual J++. JBuilder also features a scalable database architecture, robust visual "Two-Way" development
tools, and supports CORBA and all major corporate database servers. Through JBuilder's unique "JDK Switching" capability, developers can leverage the newest
JDK 1.2 to produce the most sophisticated "100% Pure Java" platform-independent applications, applets, servlets, and JavaBeans. For more information on
JBuilder, customers may visit the Inprise Web site at inprise.com |
