Inprise Integrates Sun's Java Web Server Into Its Enterprise Application Server; Inprise Application Server Helps Leading Enterprises Maximize ROI and Minimize Risks in IT Resources

Business Wire, Oct 12, 1998

SYDNEY, Australia & ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 1998--Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq:INPR), a premier provider of integration software and services to leading enterprises, today announced that it is integrating Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s 100% Pure Java(TM) Java(TM) Web Server(TM) into Inprise's enterprise application server suite, set for launch in December. Today's announcement was made at Inprise's annual Asia/Pacific user conference in Australia -- and the GartnerGroup Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida, the IT industry's largest strategic executive conference.

"Enterprises are out of the `roll-your-own' business of creating proprietary, labyrinthine, unmanageable IT infrastructures," said Marc H. Rudov, Inprise vice president of enterprise marketing. "They have concluded that the only way to compete in this rapidly changing world is to have standardized, flexible, upgradable foundations of information technology. The Inprise Application Server, with this 100% Pure Java Internet interface, meets these business objectives by offering universal platform neutrality in operating heterogeneous enterprise environments."

Sun's Java Web Server enables users of the Inprise Application Server to deploy high-performance, extensible, and easy-to-administer Internet-based, platform-independent enterprise applications. The Inprise Application Server is also planned to ship with Java Servlet support for Netscape, Microsoft, and Apache Web servers - and all HTML clients.

"Sun and Inprise share the common goal of providing high-quality, robust solutions to our enterprise customers based upon open, industry standards," said Jonathan Schwartz, director of enterprise products group at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "The integration of Sun's award-winning Java Web Server into the Inprise Application Server will provide enterprises with a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for building and managing secure Internet and intranet applications."

About the Inprise Application Server

Through the integration of Inprise's best-of-breed Java development and CORBA middleware technologies, (JBuilder, VisiBroker, and AppCenter), the Inprise Application Server will simplify the development, deployment, and management of distributed enterprise applications. Over 100 enterprise customers are actively beta-testing and evaluating the Inprise Application Server for its unrivaled foundation of enterprise-strength, standards-based transactions, security, and developer productivity. For more information on the Inprise Application Server, visit the new Inprise Application Server Web site at http://www.inprise.com/appserver.> About Inprise Corporation

Inprise Corporation is a leading provider of software and services that simplify the complexity of enterprise application development, integration, deployment, and management. The company is distinguished for its award-winning Borland family of rapid application development products and for proven scalable middleware. Inprise integrates these offerings with application-management products to provide customers with end-to-end solutions.

Inprise customers include leading enterprises and independent software vendors around the world. Founded in 1983, Inprise is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, and has operations around the world. Inprise has more than 900 employees worldwide. For more information on Inprise, customers can visit the company's Web site at http://www.inprise.com.

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Note: Forward-looking statements in this release, including but not limited to, those concerning Inprise's future financial performance, future market developments, Inprise's position in such markets, product availability dates, and the potential performance, 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 development and 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.