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To: John Solder who wrote (3248)	8/5/1999 4:53:00 PM
From: leigh aulper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Inprise Corporation Unveils Beta Version of its Developer Community Web Site Site Provides Unique Forum for Developers to Communicate, Collaborate, And Access Products and Code SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq: INPR) today issued an open invitation to developers worldwide to "test drive" community.borland.com, the beta version of its new developer community Web site. Developers are encouraged to log onto the site, which provides a unique forum for communication and collaboration and access to products and code. The site currently allows participants to read articles, vote in surveys, join newsgroups, shop, and access timely and relevant information through Inprise's use of Aeneid's EoCenter, a high-tech research center that provides news, product reviews, events and company profiles. (Photo: newscom.com ) "This site, even in beta, stands apart because it is built upon a community of developers that has been forming over the last 15 years, first with Borland International and now with Inprise Corporation," said David Intersimone, Inprise's vice president of developer relations. "Our goal is to help increase developer productivity, aid in project successes, and give developers the tools and information they need to solve their problems." The Web site enhances Inprise's ability to listen to its customers through feedback mechanisms, chat rooms, newsgroups and surveys such as the one the Company recently completed on Linux. Through that survey, over 24,000 respondents let the Company know which of Inprise products should be ported to the Linux platform. The beta test site also allows participants to sample the type of shopping they will be able to experience on-line when the final site goes live. For example, it includes a link to Buycomp.com for purchasing computers and related products. The beta site also allows participants to buy Borland and Inprise products and solutions, as well as third-party products. The beta site is separated into communities depending on a person's interests, such as C/C++, Delphi, Java, CORBA and InterBase. In these separate communities, "residents" can share their knowledge through such collaborative efforts as CodeCentral, a repository of technical information for software development, and Project JEDI, which solicits code from third parties for inclusion on the Borland Web site or on the Delphi product CD itself. Once in a community, participants can move to neighborhoods catering to their specific interests in a product.