Borland Solutions To Be Used At Carnegie Mellon's Top Ranked Computer Science Graduate Program

Business Wire, Sept 13, 2004

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Borland Donates Application Lifecycle Management Tools to Silicon Valley Campus for Use in Software Engineering Masters Programs

Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ:BORL) today announced it has donated over $1 million worth of Borland's leading Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions to Carnegie Mellon University for use in student product development simulations for its Software Engineering Master's Program. Carnegie Mellon's School for Computer Science was ranked number one in U.S. News and World Report's ranking of America's Best Graduate Schools 2005 for Computer Science.

Borland President and CEO Dale Fuller presented the contribution to Jim Morris, Dean of Carnegie Mellon's West Coast Campus, on Sunday evening to an audience of software industry veterans, corporate development teams and academics. The contribution was made during the opening keynote of Borland's annual developer conference, Borland Conference 2004, held at San Jose's McEnery Convention Center.

"Both Borland and Carnegie Mellon have been working over the years to transform the software engineering art form into a managed discipline," said Fuller. "We wanted to offer Carnegie Mellon's students, the software architects of tomorrow, access to advanced solutions that are both leading the industry now and preparing it for the future. We look forward to a long relationship with this renowned university."

Borland's ALM solutions will begin to be used this year by Software Engineering Masters candidates at Carnegie Mellon's West Coast campus in Moffett Field, Calif. Students in Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering and Software Development and Management program work together in teams on authentic, yet simulated, product development projects during which they will be required to analyze and select the best development tool(s) required for specific tasks, justify their choices to the faculty and apply the chosen tools to complete their project.

"Our master's programs are designed for students to learn in an environment that emulates real-world development scenarios, allowing them to transfer their classroom experience easily to the workplace," Morris said. "Given Borland's ubiquitous use across enterprise software development teams and the company's continuous drive to evolve the software discipline, we are extremely pleased to offer our students access to Borland products."

About Carnegie Mellon University

The only top-25 university founded in the 20th century, Carnegie Mellon has rapidly evolved into an internationally recognized institution with a distinctive mix of programs in computer science, robotics, engineering, the sciences, business, public policy, fine arts and the humanities. More than 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions to solve real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. A small student-to-faculty ratio provides an opportunity for close interaction between students and professors. While technology is pervasive on its 110-acre campus, Carnegie Mellon is distinctive among research universities because of its conservatory-like programs in its College of Fine Arts.

About Borland

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