Inprise Teams With Leaders in Healthcare, Telecommunications to Showcase Enterprise Integration at COMDEX/Enterprise '98

Business Wire, Sept 8, 1998

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 1998--

Enterprise Customers Say Inprise Has Helped Them Achieve Faster Time to Market, Lower Costs, and Leverage Better Information

During the past few months, Inprise Corporation (NASDAQ:INPR), a premier provider of distributed software solutions for leading enterprises, has made great strides towards realizing its vision of providing the framework for the fully integrated enterprise. Inprise has worked with customers in a wide variety of industries to provide the foundation for distributed computing solutions that revolutionize the way they do business. At COMDEX/Enterprise '98 being held here this week at Moscone Center, Inprise will showcase recent customer successes, provide product updates, and present its expertise in building and managing enterprise-computing infrastructure.

In booth No. 1107, Inprise will demonstrate two major updates to its VisiBroker product line. VisiBroker 3.3 is a higher-performance version of the company's market-leading object request broker, and the new VisiBroker SSL Packs provide a new level of security for distributed applications and Web transactions.

Inprise will also participate in the Object Management Group's special media event on Wednesday, September 9, at 9:00 a.m. in Room 111. The company will make a significant announcement with a leading healthcare organization, showing how the healthcare industry can use information technology to dramatically lower administration costs while improving patient care. -0-

Inprise Speakers at COMDEX/Enterprise '98

Wednesday, September 9, Moscone Center

-- 8:45 - 10:00 a.m., Room No. 306
"Managing Global Applications" (SM 01)
Howard Treissman, director of development, Inprise Corporation

     Mr. Treissman will discuss the current state of application
management in a large distributed computing enterprise.

-- 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. -- SPECIAL MEDIA EVENT -- Room No. 111
"Future Directions for CORBA and Component Architectures"

Dr. Richard A. LeFaivre, senior vice president of R&D, Inprise
 Corporation
Richard Soley, chairman and CEO, Object Management Group (OMG)
Kent Wreder, corporate director, Baptist Health Systems

     The OMG is sponsoring an analyst and media panel discussion.
Executives will discuss new CORBA 3.0 enhancements, how they will make
developing distributed components easier, and why companies are
choosing CORBA for their enterprise communications needs. At this
time, Inprise will make a special announcement in conjunction with
Philips Medical Systems and Baptist Health Systems about their use of
CORBA and Inprise's VisiBroker object request broker.

Thursday, September 10, Moscone Center

-- 9:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m., Room No. 301
"Advanced CORBA Programming in Java" (H09)
Andreas Vogel, principal consultant, Professional Services
Organization, Inprise Corporation

     In his tutorial, Dr. Vogel will discuss how to use Java/CORBA
technology to build scalable enterprise applications.

-- 12:00 - 1:15 p.m., Room No. 304
"Building Distributed Systems with Java" (AD 5)
Richard Soley, chairman and CEO, Object Management Group
Andreas Vogel, principal consultant, Professional Services
 Organization, Inprise Corporation
Michael Cook, Bellcore

     This panel explores the process of creating integrated solutions
using Web front ends and object-based back ends. Bell Communications
Research (Bellcore), one of the largest telecommunications innovators
in the world, is using Inprise's VisiBroker and Java technology to
build its next-generation applications. With Inprise's integrated set
of open tools and scalable middleware, Bellcore plans to have the
time-to-market advantage it needs to deliver results to its bottom
line.

-- 12:15 - 1:00 p.m., Security Classroom No. 2
Technology Classroom: Security in Distributed Applications
Andre Srinivasan, principal imagineer, enterprise security,
 Inprise Corporation

     The Technology Classrooms feature one-hour sessions and
presentations from enterprise exhibitors. Inprise will be leading a
tutorial on security concerns in the deployment of distributed
applications. Mr. Srinivasan will present a more comprehensive version
of this session later in the afternoon.

-- 2:15 - 3:30 p.m., Room No.  306
"What Distributed Applications Need to Know about Security" (SM09)
Andre Srinivasan, principal imagineer, enterprise security,
 Inprise Corporation

     Mr. Srinivasan's session will explore how deploying security
services within the middleware layer can simplify administration,
reduce risks, and achieve a scalable, interoperable security solution.

Friday, September 11, 1998, Moscone Center

-- 9:00 - 10:15 a.m., Room No. 305
"Building Applications that Span Across CORBA and DCOM" (AI 09)
Peter Coffee, PC Week Labs
Joseph Bentley, senior software engineer, Enterprise Tools Group,
Inprise Corporation

     This session examines the different approaches available to
bridge distributed-component technologies and their implementation
strategies.

-- 10:30 - 11:45 a.m., Room No. 305
"Object Transaction Monitors" (AI 10)
David Curtis, director of enterprise technologies, Inprise Corporation

     As organizations move to distributed applications to support
distributed-component technologies and the Web, vendors are rising to
the challenge by integrating ORB technology with TP technology to
provide object transaction services. Mr. Curtis's session investigates
the latest offerings in this area.