Borland® Delphi® 2006 and C++Builder® 2006 Deliver Key New Features to Speed Microsoft® Windows® and .NET Application Delivery

Business Wire, Oct 10, 2005

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Enhanced Development Environments Offered as Part of Borland Developer Studio, Borland's Multi-Language Developer Environment for Microsoft Windows and .NET

Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ:BORL), the global leader for Software Delivery Optimization(TM), today announced new versions of its Borland(R) Delphi(R) and Borland C Builder(R) rapid application development (RAD) environments, previously codenamed "DeXter." With powerful new productivity and performance-boosting capabilities, Borland Delphi 2006 and C Builder 2006 -- in addition to a new C#Builder(R) 2006 -- are designed to enable software teams to eliminate tedious development tasks so they can quickly and cost-effectively deliver enterprise-class Windows applications.

Delphi 2006, C Builder 2006, and C#Builder 2006 are now offered together as part of Borland Developer Studio -- Borland's multi-language developer environment for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and .NET applications. It is the only integrated development environment (IDE) that includes support for Delphi (both Windows and .NET), C, C and C# applications within a single environment. Customers purchasing any of these individual products get full support for all four languages at no additional cost, with the flexibility to customize language-specific capabilities.

"Developers are at the core of Borland's Software Delivery Optimization vision, sitting at the heart of the application lifecycle," said Boz Elloy, senior vice president of products, Borland. "We are committed to continuing to serve Delphi, C and C# developers. Our R&D team has listened to these loyal communities and responded with an intense focus on quality and productivity, adding key new IDE productivity enhancements into a fully integrated suite of application lifecycle management (ALM) tools including integrated change management, modeling and rapid application design capabilities."

Delphi 2006: The Ultimate Force-Multiplier

Delphi 2006 is designed to help development teams, regardless of their size, gain competitive advantage by maximizing both individual and team productivity. New advancements in Delphi 2006 such as a live templates system, advanced re-factorings that automate source code changes and seamless integration with Borland ALM tools -- combined with higher performance and quality enhancements -- help reduce the time and cost of building, managing, maintaining and extending both Windows and .NET applications.

Delphi users will also be able to speed development with support for reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, and advanced IDE integration with UML modeling, requirements management, version control, bug tracking, and team collaboration. With support for the Microsoft(R) .NET Framework, ASP.NET, VCL.NET, VCL, and Win32(R) SDKs, Delphi 2006 is designed to give teams the right tools for virtually any job. Additionally, because Delphi supports both Win32 and .NET, customers can continue to develop and maintain existing Win32 applications while simplifying the path to the Microsoft .NET framework and next-generation Windows applications.

"Delphi 2006 is a pleasure to use," said Peter Morris, managing director, Air Software Ltd, a software development and consultancy company based in the UK. "Some of the new features are simple and easy to use, yet I wonder how I ever got by without them. We are particularly excited by the new additions introduced in the ECO(TM) III framework. State diagrams are such a powerful addition to the framework, and the new reusable ECO package support is going to make it possible for me to reuse parts of models across many different types of applications -- a real saver in terms of both time and money."

Borland's unique enterprise framework in Delphi 2006, ECO III, provides valuable enterprise application services such as object-relational mapping and transparent object persistence, saving developers from the complexity and tedium of building and maintaining their own custom services.

ECO III also helps make design-driven development a reality with its model-powered framework, especially useful when building Web Services, ASP.NET, and Windows Form-based database applications. Model-powered applications can be efficiently created using the new ECO Synchronization Server, offering multiple synchronized object caches for increased scalability and performance. Also new in ECO III, developers can design robust enterprise applications at the state-diagram level, allowing teams to focus on business-centric design, not low-level application "plumbing."

More information on significant Delphi 2006 feature enhancements follows:

--New IDE productivity features -- The "Live Templates" system enables users to tab through fields and insert points of any template, with an added "Smart Block" completion feature that anticipates and adds block closures as you type, and a new editor "Change Bar" that indicates modified lines and saved session modified lines.

--Enhanced visual component library (VCL) -- The upgraded VCL of Delphi 2006 provides easy graphical user interface (GUI) development with a large selection of GUI components. New "Live Designer" guidelines enable users to drag lines, margins, padding, with text-based alignment, and a new Flow Panel and Grid Panel offering HTML- and Table-style form layouts.