2003 Borland Conference to be Held November 2-5 in San Jose, California

Annual Event Marks 20th Anniversary of Borland Software Corporation and Highlights Furthering of Borland Application Lifecycle Management Strategy

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. - Oct 01, 2003 : Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq NM: BORL) today announced that the 14th annual Borland Conference (BorCon) will be held Sunday, November 2, 2003 through Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. This year's conference highlights the furthering of the Borland Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy; the company's iterative approach to aligning business needs with software capabilities.

"BorCon 2003 offers a fresh perspective on reliability, performance and quality in software development. We're helping attendees and their organizations to reduce costly software rework by using technology to integrate development teams and processes without lock-in to proprietary vendor hardware or software," commented David Intersimone, vice president of developer relations at Borland. "This year's event highlights our continued commitment to driving innovation and productivity across all major development environments to impact the business bottom-line."

Industry experts will lead more than 200 in-depth technical sessions with a focus on application lifecycle management for Java,™ the Microsoft® .NET Framework, mobile and wireless, Web services, Linux,® agile processes and more. The 2003 Borland Conference will also offer comprehensive Borland product specific sessions, technology platform tracks, customer case studies, a pragmatic look at emerging technologies, and a number of special interest tracks designed to help address common business related software pain points including: requirements management, risk management, change management, software metrics, security, software reuse and others.

Borland 20th Anniversary

The Borland Conference will mark the 20-year anniversary of Borland Software Corporation, a milestone celebrated with platinum event sponsors BEA Systems, Inc., Intel Corporation and Microsoft Corp; gold sponsor Salesforce.com; silver sponsors Crystal Decisions, Extended Systems and Sybase, Inc.; and bronze sponsors ComponentOne LLC, Falafel Software, Openwave Systems, Inc., Pervasive Software, Inc., and Sanctum, Inc. Delphi Informant will be a gold media sponsor. Other media sponsors include: CMP Media, Fawcette Technical Publications, and SYS-CON Media.

Registration

Registration for the 14th annual Borland Conference is now open. For additional information, visit: http://www.borlandevents.com/.

About Borland

Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq NM: BORL) is a world leader in platform independent software development and deployment solutions that are designed to accelerate the entire application development lifecycle. By connecting managers, testers, designers, developers, and implementers in real time, Borland enables enterprises worldwide to define and sustain their competitive advantage. For more information, visit: http://www.borland.com or the Borland Developer Network at http://bdn.borland.com.

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