Interactive Broadcasting Selects Borland's Delphi Client/Server For New Generation of Games; Delphi Increases Productivity Five-Fold for Commercial Games Company

Business Wire, June 3, 1996

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 1996--Interactive Broadcasting Ltd., a leading world-wide supplier of commercial massively multi-player games have selected Borland International's Delphi Client/Server rapid application development (RAD) environment to build Windows front-end components for their new generation of graphical client/server games.

Creative Director Alan Lenton explained, "Using Borland's Delphi Client/Server has given us a five-fold increase in programmer productivity. We have found that using Delphi enables designers to create screen interfaces directly before sending it over to the programmer to write in the underlying code. This contrasts with the situation where a designer would need to first draw out what he or she wanted and then have the programmer try to match it, usually with only partial success."

Interactive Broadcasting develops commercial games that are client/server-based and designed for playing by hundreds of simultaneous users. Most of the game intelligence resides in the Unix server, and the displays are Microsoft Windows-based. Interactive Broadcasting currently uses the 16-bit version of Delphi to develop the displays for two multi-player games -- Barbarossa, a strategy wargame, and Explorer, a role-playing game set in the Victorian era. The company will be moving to the new 32-bit Delphi 2.0 version as soon as Windows 95 becomes more widespread in the home market.

"Interactive Broadcasting is breaking new ground in multi-media entertainment by using Delphi to provide a high-performance, fully scalable architecture for game players," said Zack Urlocker, director of Borland's Delphi Product Management. More and more multi-media developers are selecting Delphi for its record-breaking performance, code reuse, easy-to-use RAD environment, and scalability for client/server applications."

About Delphi

The Delphi Client/Server Suite 2.0 is Borland's 32-bit, Windows 95 and Windows NT version of the new industry standard for high-performance, client/server application development tools. Introduced in March, Delphi 2.0 is winning awards and customer praise due to its suite of powerful client and server development tools that enable large corporations and government organizations to build robust, scalable applications in shorter amounts of time. More information on Delphi and Borland is available on Borland's Internet World Wide Web (WWW) site, at http://www.borland.com.

Borland: Making Development Easier

Borland International Inc. (NASDAQ:BORL) is a leading provider of products and services for software developers. Borland is distinguished for its high-quality software development tools, which include Delphi, Delphi Client/Server Suite, Borland C , Visual dBASE, Paradox, ReportSmith and InterBase. Borland's award-winning products are supported through comprehensive programs for small- and large-sized software developers, corporate developers, value added resellers and systems integrators. Founded in 1983, Borland is headquartered in Scotts Valley, Calif.

About Interactive Broadcasting

Interactive Broadcasting games currently run on commercial networks in the USA, Great Britain, France and Greece, and are also available in most European countries. The games are Unix server- based and can be accessed through the host networks. Further information on Interactive Broadcasting is available on Interactive Broadcasting's Internet World Wide Web (WWW) site, at http://www.ibgames.com.

CONTACT: Borland International Inc.

Vallee Hubbard, 408/431-4705

vhubbard@wpo.borland.com

or

Interactive Broadcasting

Barb Byro, 212/942-2085

byro@ibgames.com