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Wednesday April 22, 7:30 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Borland International, Inc.
Oracle Expands Use of Borland's VisiBroker ORB
Technology
Borland's CORBA Security Technology to be Added to VisiBroker Clients
For Oracle(R) Application Server
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL - news)
and Borland International, Inc. (Nasdaq: BORL - news) today announced that Oracle will add
Borland's Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to the VisiBroker for Java ORB clients bundled
with the Oracle Application Server. Borland's VisiBroker SSL technology will now increase the
security of messaging between VisiBroker enabled desktops and the Oracle(R) Application
Server.
By implementing the VisiBroker SSL technology, Oracle is enabling its customers to write applets
and Java applications that are protected by SSL, an industry accepted standard for securing
communications across intranets and the Internet. More specifically, they will have access to
features such as message privacy, message integrity and public key based authentication.
When SSL support in VisiBroker was announced last year, Visigenic (recently acquired by
Borland) became the first ORB vendor to support encryption of IIOP messages as well as support
client/server authentication using digital certificates. Borland is also the first ORB vendor to comply
with Level 2 of OMG's CORBA security specification, which provides more security facilities,
application control over security at object invocation, and policy administration to facilitate
application portability to different ORB environments and security service implementations.
''In the network computing arena, Oracle is focused on offering customers a total solution reaching
from data and application servers out to clients,'' stated Rod Butters, vice president, Oracle
Application Server Division. ''Oracle is renowned for scalable, reliable and manageable
server-side solutions; the bundling of Borland's VisiBroker client technology with the next release
of our Application Server helps ensure our customers have a total solution.''
These new announcements build on the alliance between Oracle and Visigenic Software that has
continued to expand since the relationship was first announced in 1997. (See the February 5, 1997
press release, ''Oracle and Visigenic Join Forces to Deliver Best of Breed Object Technology,
Java and Open Standards for Network Computing Architecture'').
''This latest agreement with Oracle continues our longtime partnership to deliver best-of-breed
solutions for distributed object computing,'' said Zack Urlocker, Borland's vice president of
marketing. ''We're thrilled by the results of our work together to date, and plan for the scope of
our partnership to continue to expand.''
Borland's VisiBroker -- The Leading Deployed ORB Technology
Visigenic was the first company to release a Java ORB and the first to support IIOP in its ORB
products. The company was also the first ORB vendor to implement a new CORBA standard for
Java interoperability. Deployed licenses for the VisiBroker ORB surpassed 30 million in 1997,
making VisiBroker the most widely distributed and adopted ORB worldwide. Industry
partnerships with Oracle, Hitachi, Novell, Netscape, Silicon Graphics and others have played a
key role in making VisiBroker the leading deployed ORB in the computer industry.
Borland's VisiBroker ORB technology is designed to facilitate the development and deployment of
distributed object-based applications that are scaleable, flexible and easily maintainable.
VisiBroker allows organizations to leverage existing corporate applications while developing and
deploying new distributed applications. VisiBroker for Java and VisiBroker for C++ implement the
CORBA 2.0 and IIOP standards developed by the Object Management Group (OMG), and can
interoperate with other CORBA-2.0 compliant ORBs in a distributed object computing
environment.
About Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the
world's second largest software company. With annual revenues of more than $6.7 billion, the
company offers its database, application server, tools and application products, along with related
consulting, education and support services in more than 140 countries around the world. For more
information about Oracle, call 650-506-7000. Oracle's World Wide Web address is
oracle.com.
About Borland International
Borland International, Inc. is a leading provider of high-quality software products for corporate
application developers worldwide. Borland is distinguished for its award-winning family of rapid
application development tools and scalable middleware technology for desktop, client/server,
Internet/intranet and enterprise systems. The company's products are supported through
comprehensive corporate and independent developer programs, value-added resellers and systems
integrators. Founded in 1983, Borland is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California.
Forward-looking statements in this release, including but not limited to, those concerning Borland's
future financial performance, product availability dates 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: difficulties in integrating the operations and
technology of Visigenic Software or other companies or technologies which the Company may
acquire, 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 S.E.C. reports on forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, and the
Borland prospectus relating to the acquisition of Visigenic Software.
NOTE: Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. Borland product names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland International, Inc. Other product names
mentioned herein may be trademarks of the party using such names.
SOURCE: Borland International, Inc. |
