SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. and WESTBORO, Mass., Aug 23, 1999 /PRNewswire
via COMTEX/ -- InpriseCorporation (Nasdaq: INPR) today announced the
immediate availability of VisiBroker for Data General Corporation's
(NYSE: DGN) AViiON(R) line of DG/UX(R) servers. VisiBroker, the
award-winning CORBA object request broker (ORB) for Java and C++,
allows Data General to satisfy the needs of its enterprise customers
seeking a scalable, flexible and easily maintainablesolution.
(Photo: newscom.com ) As part
of the agreement with Data General, Inprise's Professional Service
Organization (PSO) and Data General are providing a broad range of
consulting, training and technical support services to Data General's
customers.
"This agreement significantly strengthens Data General's enterprise
class AViiON server offerings," said Linda Mentzer, vice president of
AViiON marketing at Data General. "Inprise's VisiBroker is a recognized
leader for Internet-enabling software that allows our customers to
produce CORBA based applications and bring them to market faster, with
better performance and quality. We look forward to leveraging
VisiBroker's unique capabilities with Data General solutions."
Data General's AViiON servers provide customers with a broad, scalable
family of high-performance enterprise systems based on Intel
architecture. Featuring comprehensive security, reliability,
availability and serviceability, AViiON provides a robust foundation
for strategic applications in a variety of markets, including
healthcare, finance, manufacturing, andothers.
"Inprise is proud that Data General has standardized on VisiBroker for
their enterprise servers, allowing their customers to effectively
leverage the power of the web to access information," said Dale Fuller,
interim president and CEO of Inprise Corporation. "Data General, a
leader in open server and storage products, has joined other top
companies including Hewlett-Packard, SGI and Sun Microsystems who are
benefiting from Inprise's technology."
AV 25000 NUMA Server Data General's AV 25000 server, using the DG/UX
operating system, can support up to sixty-four 500-MHz Pentium(R) III
Xeon(TM) processors with up to 2MB of cache per processor, 64 GB of
memory, and over 100 Terabytes of CLARiiON(R) Fibre Channel storage.
The AV 25000 continues DataGeneral's high-availability tradition with
dedicated diagnostics processors, AV/Alert(SM) "phone home" remote
support, redundant, hot-swappable power and cooling, as well as
clustering capabilities including Disaster Recovery Clusters.
About Data General Headquartered in Westboro, Mass., Data General is a
major supplier of storage and enterprise computing solutions for
customers worldwide. The company's products include CLARiiON Fibre
Channel storage systems, high-end NT and UNIX AViiON servers, and
related software and services. Thecompany reported fiscal 1998 revenues
of $1.5 billion. Additional information on the company, its products,
and services is available on the Internet at www.dg.com.
Inprise VisiBroker -- A Leader of Deployed ORB Technology Inprise's
VisiBroker CORBA ORB is designed to facilitate the development and
deployment of distributed enterprise applications. Industry
affiliations with Hewlett-Packard, Telcordia Technologies, Oracle
Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Hitachi, Informix, Novell, Netscape,
Silicon Graphics, Sybase, and others have played a key role in making
VisiBroker a leading deployed and adopted ORB in the computer industry.
About Inprise Professional Service Organization (PSO) The Inprise
Professional Services Organization is a key element of the complete
Inprise solution, which includes industry leading software products,
worldwide consulting services, and extensive business partnerships. By
providing a full spectrum of consulting, training and support services,
the Professional Services Organization extends our partnership with
Inprise customers and partners to assist with the development,
integration, deployment, and management of enterprise systems. Working
in concert with Inprise Enterprise Solution Partners, the Professional
Services Organization helps businesses achieve their strategic
information technology goals.
About Inprise Corporation Inprise Corporation is a leading provider of
Internet-enabling software and services designed to simplify the
complexity of application development for corporations and individual
programmers. Inprise delivers integrated, scalable and secure
mission-critical solutions, distinguished for their ease of use,
performance and productivity. Committed to open platforms, Inprise
continues its tradition of service and support for the millions of
software developers around the world through its online developer
community and E-commerce site -- www.borland.com -- providing a range
of technical information, value-add services and third-party products.
Founded in 1983, Inprise is headquartered in Scotts Valley, Calif.,
with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit us at
inprise.com or call 800-632-2864.
Forward-looking statements in this release, including but not limited
to, those concerning Inprise's future financial performance, product
availability dates, results of the Company's strategic review, 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: 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 SEC reports on forms 8-K, 10-Q and 10-K.
NOTE: Inprise product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Inprise Corporation. AViiON, CLARiiON and DG/UX are registered
trademarks and AV/Alert is a service mark of Data General Corporation.
Other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of the party using such
names.
SOURCE Inprise Corporation
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