Europay International Selects Borland as Java Development Standard

Business Wire, March 25, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

JavaOne 2002

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 2002

Europay International Chooses Borland(R) JBuilder(TM) and

JDataStore(TM) For Developing Java-based Applications

Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq:BORL) announced today that Europay International, Europe's leading payment organization, has selected Borland(R) technology to form the strategic development environment for its future Java-based applications. Europay International offers its more than 9,000 member banks European and global debit and credit card services and support. At present, Europay has 291.1 million cards in circulation, including all EuroCards(R) and MasterCards(R). These cards also support cash withdrawal at more than 305,500 ATMs, Europe's largest network.

Europay International plans to develop mission-critical Java-based solutions both for its organization's members and for its own internal solutions using Borland(R) JBuilder(TM), the leading cross-platform environment for building business, database, and distributed applications for the Java(TM) 2 platform, and Borland(R) JDataStore(TM), an object relational database management system written entirely in Java. Europay International chose to build solutions entirely based on Java and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM) platform) to ensure portability and scalability.

"In our business you have to be very flexible; in the financial industry things can change dramatically overnight. We need to be able to adapt to changes quickly," said Peter Vandenbroucke, Head of Regional Systems, at Europay International. "We chose Borland for all current and future development because of its firm support for open standards and excellence in development technology." "The financial and electronic payment industry is an area which typically requires very robust software," said Nigel Brown, vice president and general manager, Borland EMEA. "Borland technology will provide the best-in-class development platform Europay International needs to meet the high demands of this industry."

About Europay International

Europay International, headquartered in Waterloo, Belgium, is Europe's leading payments organization, dedicated to providing a tailored product range and support services to its more than 9,000 Member banks. At present, 291.1 million cards (Eurocard(R), MasterCard(R), Maestro(R), Cirrus(R) and eurocheque) provide European and global debit and credit card services, and offer cash access to Europe's largest network of more than 305,800 ATMs in 43 countries. Through its alliance with MasterCard International, over 600,000 ATMs and more than 22 million retail locations worldwide accept Europay products. Europay's web site at www.europay.com gives a detailed view on the company's products and services and shows how Europay offers its Member banks both support and leadership on issues including virtual commerce, chip technology, security & risk management, and the advent of the Euro.

About Borland(R) JBuilder(TM)

Borland JBuilder is the leading cross-platform environment for building business, database, and distributed applications for the Java 2 platform. JBuilder simplifies EJB(TM) 2.0 development with two-way visual designers and rapid deployment to the leading J2EE(TM) platform application servers, including BEA(R) WebLogic(R), IBM(R) WebSphere(R), iPlanet(TM), and the integrated Borland(R) Enterprise Server. It enhances developer productivity with UML code visualization, refactoring, unit testing, and documentation tools, and enables development and deployment of applications on Windows(R), Linux(R), Solaris(TM), and Mac OS platforms. JBuilder is available in three versions: Enterprise, Professional, and Personal. For more information on JBuilder visit http://www.borland.com/jbuilder.> About Borland(R) JDataStore(TM)

JDataStore can function as a server or be embedded into "client-side" or remote applications with top performance and virtually zero administration. JDataStore is a complete, cost effective solution for Java platforms including: mobile computing, Internet applications, Web servers and Enterprise JavaBeans(TM) (EJB) servers. Other key features include object relational storage; Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) local or remote Type 4 drivers; JavaBeans(R) components that allows direct access to JDataStore; and lightweight replication and synchronization technology. All of these features enable JDataStore to solve a variety of general database problems and complement popular native RDBMS systems like Borland(R) InterBase(R), Oracle(R), IBM(R) DB2(R), Microsoft(R) SQL Server(TM) and Sybase(R).

About Borland

Borland Software Corporation is a leading provider of technology used to develop, deploy and integrate software applications. Delivering best-in-class technology solutions dedicated to interoperability, Borland allows enterprises of all sizes to move into Web based computing while leveraging legacy systems. From the Fortune 1000 to the Borland Nation consisting of millions of developers, Borland provides customers the freedom to develop applications, deploy them anywhere and integrate and manage them across the enterprise. Borland solutions enable organizations to increase productivity and deliver higher performance projects faster and on budget, while lowering total cost of ownership.