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Technology Stocks : INPR - Inprise to Borland (BORL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maher Sid-Ahmed who wrote (228)	6/16/1998 8:29:00 AM
From: Bipin Prasad	Respond to of 5102

Inprise Announces Delphi Upgrade (06/15/98; 8:27 p.m. ET) By Andy Patrizio, TechWeb Inprise on Monday announced Borland Delphi 4, the latest revision to its rapid application-development tool, with a greater emphasis on middleware technology for building highly scaleable client/server applications. Owing to its older lineage, Inprise, which changed its name from Borland (company profile) in April to break with its troubled past, is selling Delphi under the Borland product name, as it will do with other desktop development tools like JBuilder. Delphi 4 builds heavily on enterprise-scale development and adds a number of middleware-oriented technologies, which allow for building client applications without having to worry about what kind of systems are used on the back end. Bundled with the compiler is Borland's Multi-Tier Distributed Application Services technology, which provides such middleware functions as load balancing and inter-object communication. Delphi 4 also marks the first time the product supports CORBA, DCE, and Microsoft Transaction Server, as well as improved COM and DCOM support. Inprise focused on middleware so much because its customers are moving to multi-tier client/server environments. Through CORBA and DCE support, developers can create thin-client applications that require less maintenance and use CORBA networking protocols, which are highly scaleable and can communicate with almost any operating system or hardware platform. Two-tier client/server, which early versions of Delphi specialized in creating, was good for dozens of users, but now its customers need to scale up for thousands of users. "Our customers said two-tier client/server worked up to a point, but distributed apps are where they're going, and they need to fix certain problems," said Ben Riga, product manager for Delphi at Inprise, in Scotts Valley, Calif. Other new functionality in Delphi 4 includes support for building applications for Oracle8 using the Oracle database's native object relational extensions and a new integrated development environment called AppBrowser, which lets the programmer navigate through code as if they were using a browser. In addition, it has support for Windows 98 controls and new multi-platform debugging tools. Beta tester Bernie Crisostomo, vice president of technology architecture at NationsBank in Dallas, Texas, said the bank is using Delphi 4 to update its two-tier client/server Delphi applications to multi-tier architecture, and expects to add several years to the product life span. "The basic seamless integration of CORBA services really gives it tremendous credibility and renewed life to our application components," he said. "We were looking at a two-year projection for product life, but now we are looking at five years because we can wrap it around CORBA services." Delphi 4 is available in three flavors: Client/Server Suite, Professional, and Standard. All will be sold directly through Inprise as well as a reseller. Prices are $2,499, $799, and $99.95, respectively. Borland Client/Server product users can purchase Delphi 4 Client/Server Suite for $1,699, while owners of any Borland or Inprise product can purchase Delphi 4 Professional for $249.95. A competitive upgrade is available for Delphi 4 Professional for $299.95.

To: Maher Sid-Ahmed who wrote (228)	6/16/1998 9:24:00 AM
From: Edward F. Horst Jr.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Three objectives of management were to increase shareholder participation, increase analyst coverage and improve institutional activity and interest. This at a time when the entire business model has changed to an Enterprise solutions vendor with an entirely new distribution model. I continue to believe that the stock price is a reflection of the lack of information as to how all this is doing, including the Visigenics assimilation. Announce enterprise sales specifically, or announce how many $1M deals have been signed on a comparative basis, or announce significant partner relationships which will enhance enterprise sales, etc. Short of any type of guidance, the market is left to deal with all the uncertainty and negatives which Borland has earned previously. We are left with having faith in Del and his 100% new management team, plus waiting for the quarterly results. If this is an industry or market situation, I respectfully disagree!