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To: TTOSBT who wrote (9870)	4/15/1998 9:23:00 PM
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From TechWeb.Com............. << Borland To Detail Plans For Visigenic Object Technology By Jeffrey Schwartz Borland International this month will disclose a new product road map, explaining how it will tie together the distributed object technology acquired from Visigenic Software. Referred to by company officials as "The New Borland," the plan centers around its strategy to move the use of objects from a departmental level to the enterprise, said Rick LeFaivre, vice president and chief technology officer, speaking at the recent Internet/Intranet Development Conference. Borland's strategy will be disclosed at the IT Forum conference in San Francisco on April 29. "It's a very different company," said LeFaivre of the company's focus on middleware and tools. Borland's acquisition of Visigenic, completed earlier this year, gives it the coveted ORB technology, based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, licensed to many vendors. "They are trying to get more into the enterprise application development market, and that's been hard for them to do in the past because they basically offer two-tier tool sets," said Karen Boucher, an analyst at the Standish Group, a consultancy that specializes in distributed computing, transaction processing and object environments. "By adding the ORB in there, they can be viewed more as an enterprise-level tool." Key to its plan, Borland will reveal an integrated tools strategy centered on the use of the Visigenics VisiBroker ORB. LeFaivre did not disclose product details, but said the new technology would affect all of Borland's tools, including JBuilder, Delphi and C++ Builder. Borland also will launch a new version of its Entera middleware. Currently used to tie legacy applications using the Distributed Computing Environment, which uses Remote Procedure Calls, a new release of Entera will support bridging to objects based on CORBA technology. "A lot of our customers have large Entera applications. They don't want to replace those; they want to write new things in CORBA but they want it all to work together," LeFaivre said. The bridging technology should be available next quarter, he said. That will be followed by a year-end release of Entera that supports native CORBA objects. "The next phase is providing the same Entera capabilities that they have been used to on top of the CORBA infrastructure," LeFaivre said. According to Boucher, "They have a lot of customers that like Entera, but they've lost their religion in DCE so they want to migrate over to CORBA. This makes it easier." Overall, the VisiBroker ORB technology, licensed to a slew of companies, will help shops that have standardized on Borland's middleware and development tools, Boucher said. "Adding the ORB lets their customers go to three-tier architectures while keeping their existing Borland environments." Borland also plans to unveil a new version of its AppCenter for managing Entera objects. Copyright (c) 1998 CMP Media Inc. >>