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To: Jeroen Pluimers who wrote (9200)	2/24/1998 8:52:00 AM
From: Bipin Prasad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

all, Borland, IBM Team On Java Transaction Processing (02/23/98; 5:43 p.m. EST) By Darryl K. Taft, Computer Reseller News IBM and Borland International have inked a deal aimed at advancing the transaction processing capability of Java-based systems. Borland announced Java support for Customer Information Control System (CICS) enterprise developers with JBuilder, the company's visual Java development environment. Borland officials said that by using IBM's CICS Gateway for Java product with JBuilder and JavaBeans, enterprise VARs can integrate CICS support into their Java and Web-based applications. Borland made the announcement at the IBM Business Partner Executive Conference (BPEC) held in San Francisco this week. Thomas Torf, Borland's director of strategic sales said Borland shares a common vision with IBM, which is helping VARs "build state-of-the-art e-business applications and enterprise information networks." Rob Lamb, IBM's CICS business executive, said Borland's tools "complement IBM's Transaction Systems offerings by providing CICS developers with the ability to join the Web age, providing an excellent way of leveraging existing applications by Web-enabling them." IBM's CICS Gateway for Java enables Java applications to exploit CICS servers, combining Java and CICS for electronic business solutions, the company said. Borland's JBuilder product family features JavaBeans component creation, a scalable database architecture, and visual development tools. regards, BPP(Bipin's partner)

To: Jeroen Pluimers who wrote (9200)	2/24/1998 9:52:00 PM
From: James Yegerlehner	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 10836

All: I posted this on one of the Borland tools newsgroups (forums.borland.com) regarding what I think is a weakness in Borland's tools strategy. I post it here because I think it may be of interest. Ben Matterson (Borland) wrote in message <34F32F46.5076E799@corp.borland.com>... > >Borland's policy is to keep quiet until a product is ready. We're not >in the business of selling vaporware. > Delivering promised products late hasn't exactly put Microsoft out of business. In the mean time, I've personally seen instances of people choosing MSVC over delphi/BCB just because they need to port to CE one day. CE is starting slow like NT did but before long it will be everywhere. And if you say Borland is only interested in the Enterprise market and CE isn't it, guess what: MS is going to have an IA-64 SDK before the end of this year. People who spend big bucks on the Merced servers in about a year are going to want to run native IA-64 code, not IA-32. If Borland doesn't make it crystal clear that there will be native code generation for IA-64 from their tools, they stand to lose a lot of business. IMO Borland needs to break a couple of compiler geniuses free and get us some cross-compilers for the other win32 CPUs (CE and NT) before everybody needs them. Right now you can recompile an MFC app for any CE device you want. If Borland waits until it becomes obvious that everyone needs to compile for CE devices, it will be too late. I really really don't want to have to give up using Delphi for win32 development. But if current trends are any indicator, we're all going to be using the MS tools. techweb.com zdnet.com Jim