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To: Dennis Nicks who wrote (3375)	11/5/1999 6:42:00 AM
From: leigh aulper	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

Inprise Announces New Agreement for its Award-Winning VisiBroker Product SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq: INPR), today announced that its award-winning VisiBroker CORBA Object Request Broker (ORB) will be utilized in Cisco Systems' CiscoWorks2000 family of enterprise network management products. As part of the agreement, Inprise's VisiBroker will be embedded in Cisco's Common Management Foundation, which is a software infrastructure used by Cisco Works2000 network management applications. (Photo: newscom.com ) "Leveraging Inprise's VisiBroker ORB helps improve the time to market for our CiscoWorks2000 management solutions and allows our software development team to focus on network management," said Ben DeBolle, senior product line manager at Cisco Systems, Inc. "Inprise's impressive set of software components are scalable and stable, enabling us to deliver distributed Web-based network management solutions to our customers." "This agreement represents Inprise's ability to help companies effectively leverage the power of the Web," said Dale Fuller, interim president and chief executive officer of Inprise Corporation. "Cisco products are the backbone of the Internet. Combining Cisco's family of enterprise network management solutions with Inprise's VisiBroker facilitates the process of remote configuration and allows customers to work more efficiently with low administration." CiscoWorks2000 is a family of network management solutions combining Cisco's switch and router management with Internet standards to transform network management. Inprise's VisiBroker facilitates the development and deployment of distributed enterprise applications that are scalable, flexible and easily maintained. As systems get more complicated with numerous sub-applications, this combination is necessary for companies to thrive in today's Internet economy. About CiscoWorks2000 CiscoWorks2000 is a family of products based on Internet standards for managing Cisco enterprise networks and devices. Inprise VisiBroker -- A Leading Deployed ORB Technology Inprise's VisiBroker CORBA object request brokers (ORBs) are designed to facilitate the development and deployment of distributed enterprise applications that are scalable, flexible and easily maintained. 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.

To: Dennis Nicks who wrote (3375)	11/6/1999 8:07:00 PM
From: Dennis Nicks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Has anyone visited the Borland website lately? Another major overhaul of the front page. This time its filled with lots of Internet buzzwords (the header on the page had "dotcommers" one time and then "go .com yourself"). Then there is the "webvolutionaries" ditty. Maybe I'm naive, but does this type of marketing appeal to upper management? Blond, scantily clad women seems to sell beer, but can this internet, webvolutionary hype sell software? To get a feel of how far they are going with this webvolutionary thing, visit this site: webvolutionaries.com I'm well aware of the marketing problems Borland/Inprise has had over the years and this is their latest shot. Is this what it takes to sell software nowadays? Dennis