Borland Named ALM Heavyweight by Butler Group; Borland's Software Delivery Optimization™ Platform Recognized for Improving Software Development Processes and Business Performance

Business Wire, Sept 12, 2005

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Leading analyst firm, the Butler Group, has published results from its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Market Lifecycle Ratings, naming Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ:BORL) a "heavyweight" among ALM solution providers. In its evaluation, Butler Group found Borland's Software Delivery Optimization(TM)(SDO(TM)) vision to address the complete lifecycle from software inception to product delivery and management.

Butler Group's vendor ranking and assessment model groups ALM vendors into Outperform, Perform and Underperform categories, and shows a vendor's progress through the three major phases of market adoption: Early Adoption, Market Adoption and Market Maturity. Borland's Software Delivery Optimization program was named in the Outperform category across each phase of market adoption.

"Borland has a broad range of functions in its ALM suite that enables better management of application development across heterogeneous IT environments," said Michael Azoff, Senior Research Analyst, Butler Group. "Borland's Software Delivery Optimization platform, Core SDP(TM), offers a high degree of role-based integration for analysts, architects, developers and testers, connecting all phases of the development lifecycle. We see Borland continuing to make strides in the ALM space in the coming years while advancing technologies across its product line with the upcoming releases of Project 'Hyperion' and Project 'Prometheus.'"

"Butler Group's findings show the maturity, functionality and market presence of today's ALM solutions," said Rick Jackson, chief marketing officer at Borland. "Being named to the Outperform category across all phases shows the success we're seeing in the ALM space and is a testament to why organizations are choosing Borland to help make software delivery a more predictable, efficient and manageable business process."

Borland's SDO vision helps transform software development from a chaotic art form into an accelerated and disciplined process that bridges the gaps between business, development and operations teams. This approach to software delivery, which holistically aligns people, process and technology, can help organizations maximize the business value of their software.

"Borland is at the forefront of the evolution occurring in application development today," continued Azoff. "Its Software Delivery Optimization (SDO) vision now goes beyond ALM, to embrace business at higher levels, and also combines tools and methodologies to offer software development as a complete package. Part of this growth reflects a change in what customers want -- where they've been looking for point products in the past this has now changed to solutions. Borland is geared to deliver on that need."

About Butler Group

Butler Group (www.butlergroup.com) is Europe's leading independent IT Research and Advisory organisation. Its mission is to ensure that its clients are the most comprehensively informed IT and business managers on current, emerging, and future technology matters, and their impact on business -- in short, "Analysis without compromise." Butler Group has established an enviable reputation for the impartiality and incisiveness of its research and opinions. This is evidenced by a client base encompassing over 40% of the top 100 companies in each of Butler Group's key markets. Butler Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Datamonitor Plc (www.datamonitor.com).

About Borland

Founded in 1983, Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ:BORL) is the global leader in platform independent solutions for Software Delivery Optimization. The company provides the software and services that align the people, process, and technology required to maximize the business value of software. To learn more about delivering quality software, on time and within budget, visit http://www.borland.com.

Borland, Software Delivery Optimization, SDO, Core SDP and all other Borland brand and product names are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.

Safe Harbor Statement

This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the Federal Securities Laws, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is subject to the safe harbors created by such laws. Forward-looking statements may relate to, but are not limited to, the benefits to be derived from SDO. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations that involve a number of uncertainties and risks that may cause actual events or results to differ materially. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially include, among others, acceptance of our products and services including our enterprise software development platform/solution; our ability to successfully deliver on large transactions; our ability to enhance the quality and scalability of our products, improve the integration and overall functionality of these products as part of our ALM software development platform and evolve our ALM platform toward our vision of SDO; our ability to establish or enhance strategic alliances; rapid technological and business change that can adversely affect the demand for Borland products and services; and general economic factors and capital market conditions. These and other risks may be detailed from time to time in Borland periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, its latest Annual Report on Form 10-K and its latest Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, copies of which may be obtained from www.sec.gov. Borland is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.