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New VisiBroker 3.3 for Delphi Radically Simplifies CORBA Development Available Immediately for Free Download on www.borland.com SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq: INPR) today announced the immediate availability of VisiBroker 3.3 for Delphi. With Inprise's VisiBroker for Delphi, developers can quickly create and deploy distributed applications in computing environments including Windows and Linux. VisiBroker for Delphi provides a complete CORBA environment for Delphi, Inprise's rapid application development (RAD) tool for Windows. The product is available as a free download, for developers who have purchased Delphi 5 Enterprise Edition, at Inprise's Web site via borland.com . (Photo: newscom.com ) Inprise's VisiBroker for Delphi is designed to facilitate the development of CORBA applications that are scalable, flexible, easily maintained and based on industry standards. CORBA simplifies the building of applications that are distributed and interoperable across the Internet and multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, and Java. CORBA is particularly important to the Linux community where is it also used for inter-application communication in Linux desktop environments including both GNOME and KDE. "VisiBroker for Delphi is part of Inprise's continuing commitment to provide customers with the solutions they need to conduct business over the Internet," said Dale Fuller, interim president and CEO of Inprise Corporation. "Delphi is the tool of choice for customers who need a fast, reliable tool to create Windows applications and extend those applications to the Web. With VisiBroker for Delphi we take this one step further by giving developers the opportunity of deploying new and existing Delphi applications within a CORBA environment." About Delphi 5 Borland Delphi 5 is Inprise's rapid application development tool for Windows. Inprise has announced that it is developing a high performance Linux application development environment that will support Delphi development. The project, code named "Kylix," is scheduled for release next year and based on an Inprise survey, released last July, is one of the most anticipated products for Linux. Designed to help individual and corporate developers rapidly deliver Windows applications as well as extend those applications to the Internet, Delphi 5 radically simplifies the integration of Windows and browser clients, Web servers, middleware and back-end database systems. Delphi 5 includes support for HTML 4 and XML, the industry standards for building Internet applications for data distribution and exchange. About VisiBroker Inprise's VisiBroker is an Object Request Broker (ORB) designed to facilitate the development and deployment of distributed enterprise applications that are scalable, flexible, easily maintained and based on industry standards. Available on numerous platforms, including Linux and Windows, this new development version of VisiBroker for Delphi builds on proven technologies that provide industry-leading reliability, scalability and performance. Strong industry relationships with Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Telcordia Technologies, Hitachi, Informix, Novell, Silicon Graphics, and others have played a key role in making VisiBroker a leading deployed and adopted ORB in the computer industry.