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Borland and Digital Announce New Marketing Partnership Borland to Deliver
OLEnterprise for the Digital AlphaServer Family of Systems
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Date: Thursday, April 10, 1997
Source: PR Newswire
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SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., April 9 /PRNewswire/ via Individual Inc. -- Borland
International, Inc. (Nasdaq: BORL) today announced its intention to deliver
its OLEnterprise distributed object middleware for Digital Equipment
Corporation's (NYSE: DEC) AlphaServer platform. OLEnterprise provides
scalability and fail over safety for business critical applications in a
distributed, multi-tier computing environment. The two companies also
announced that Borland has joined Digital's Association of Software &
Application Partners (ASAP) and Internet Innovators business partner
programs.
"The Digital AlphaServer is a key platform for corporate and enterprise
developers," said Zack Urlocker, Borland's vice president of product
management. "This new partnership with Digital continues our Golden Gate
commitment to align Borland with industry leaders and to support all major
computing standards and platforms for our customers."
"We are very pleased to welcome Borland to the ASAP Program," said Jack
Mileski, Digital's ASAP Program Manager. "Borland and Digital both have
unique strengths that integrate well with each other, and the availability
of Borland's suite of industry-leading application development software on
Digital's family of high-performance AlphaServer systems will deliver
customers a solution set that is powerful and comprehensive."
Digital's family of AlphaServer systems take advantage of the industry's
fastest processors, advanced clustering technology, thousands of
applications optimized for high-performance 64-bit computing, and a choice
of Digital UNIX, OpenVMS, or Windows NT operating systems. The AlphaServer
platform is ideal for a wide variety of applications and can be easily
scaled to meet the changing needs of large enterprises, small companies,
and departments. It is designed to provide high transaction throughput,
availability, and reliability for Internet commerce, data warehousing, mail
and messaging, and business and technical applications.
Borland Support for Alpha
Borland OLEnterprise support for Alpha-based systems running Windows NT
will be available in the second half of 1997. Borland has already delivered
Alpha support for its InterBase relational database server under Digital
UNIX and OpenVMS. Borland Entera also supports Digital UNIX today. In
addition, all of Borland's client/server and Internet development tools,
including Delphi Client/Server Suite, C++Builder Client/Server Suite, and
IntraBuilder Client/Server support Digital's Intel-based PCs and servers
today.
Digital's Business Partner Programs
Digital's Association of Software & Application Partners Program (ASAP) is
a comprehensive initiative that is tailored to address the unique demands
and requirements of the software developer community, including Independent
Software Vendors, System Integrators and Software/Application Value Added
Resellers. ASAP offers a broad range of incentives to companies in an
effort to make it easier and more attractive for them to develop, migrate
and sell software and applications on and for Digital platforms. Since its
inception in September of 1995, the ASAP program has grown to the point
where today its over 2,000 member companies deliver more than 8,000
software applications that are available on Digital's family of AlphaServer
and AlphaStation systems.
The Internet Innovators Program is a Digital partners program that is
designed to assist Internet software companies port their applications to
the Alpha platform through the ASAP services, and promote the resulting
product to Digital's global channel partners, customers and prospects.
About Digital
Digital Equipment Corporation is a world leader in open client/server
solutions, from personal computing to integrated worldwide information
systems. Digital's scalable Alpha and Intel platforms, storage, networking,
software and services, together with industry-focused solutions from
business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global
marketplace. For additional information visit Digital on the Internet at
www.digital.com.
Borland: Making Development Easier
Borland International, Inc. is a leading provider of high-quality software
products for software application developers worldwide. Borland is
distinguished for its award-winning family of rapid application development
tools and scalable middleware technology for desktop, client/server,
Internet/intranet, and enterprise systems. The Company's products are
supported through comprehensive corporate and independent developer
programs, value added resellers, and systems integrators. Founded in 1983,
Borland is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California. For more information
on Borland, customers can visit Borland Online at http://www.borland.com.
Forward-looking statements in this release, including but not limited to,
those concerning Borland's future financial performance, product
availability dates, and the potential features of or benefits to be derived
from the Company's products, involve a number of uncertainties and risks,
and actual events or results may differ materially. Factors that could
cause actual events or results to differ materially include, among others,
the following: possible disruptive effects of organizational or personnel
changes, shifts in customer demand, market acceptance of the Company's new
or enhanced products, delays in scheduled product availability dates,
actions or announcements by competitors, software errors, general business
conditions and market growth rates in the client/server and Internet
software markets, and other factors described in the Company's S.E.C.
reports on forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K and the Borland prospectus relating to the
acquisition of Open Environment Corporation.
NOTE: Digital, the Digital logo, AlphaServer and AlphaStation are all
trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation. Borland product names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland International, Inc. Other
product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of the party using such
names.
SOURCE Borland International Inc.
/CONTACT: Steve Curry of Borland International, Inc., 408-431-4863, or
[email protected]; or Paul Collins of Digital Equipment Corporation,
508-467-2251, or [email protected]/ (BORL DEC)
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