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Borland Enhances Industry Leading VisiBroker with New CORBA Services for Telecommunications, Web Services, Security and More

New VisiBroker Services, Enhancements to Borland Janeva, Borland Deployment Op-Center and Borland Enterprise Servers Improve Performance and Lower Cost of Heterogeneous IT Environments

FRANKFURT, Germany (European Borland Conference 2004) - Sep 28, 2004 : Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: NM: BORL) today introduced the newest version of Borland Enterprise Server 6.5, VisiBroker® Edition, Borland’s widely deployed infrastructure solution for the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®). The company also introduced new and enhanced CORBA services for those depending on this high-performance, highly-available and scalable platform to run mission-critical applications.

Borland also announced today new versions of its Borland Deployment Op-Center, Borland Janeva™ and Borland Enterprise Server, AppServer Edition, all of which should help simplify the delivery of distributed, heterogeneous software applications within complex IT environments.

“CORBA continues to power some of the world’s most critical software systems, from global telecommunication networks to national stock exchanges and defense systems,” said Thanh Tran, vice president and general manager of Borland’s Enterprise Business Unit. “VisiBroker and our other deployment products enable companies to continue their investments in CORBA and be confident their high-performance legacy systems can easily integrate with and even supplement newer technologies and platforms.”

“Every IT investment needs to be maximized,” said Dr. Hans Herbert Langer, department manager of architecture & development at the Techniker Krankenkasse. “The performance and scalability enhancements in Borland Enterprise Server, VisiBroker edition will be very important for us, helping us to ensure our CORBA systems are able to power our most critical systems.”

Improving Performance in Mission-Critical Applications

Increasing IT efficiency continues to be a top concern of CIOs today, especially in the telecommunications, government and finance sectors where real-time information access is crucial and investments in CORBA are common. Borland continues to address this need with significant performance and scalability enhancements in VisiBroker, as well as a number of new and improved add-on services that leverage CORBA’s scalability, performance and reliability. These include:

  • Borland VisiExchange– a new service that exposes CORBA applications as Web services, and includes WSDL tooling, UDDI and Axis support
  • Borland VisiTime– a new service that provides a sophisticated model for manipulating time, time zones and inaccuracies in time
  • Borland VisiTelcoLog– a new telecom service that enables permanent storage and query-based retrieval of logged events
  • Borland VisiNotify– an improved service for high-performance event notification with unique support for typed channels
  • Borland VisiSecure– an improved security service that helps ensure critical data and services are not exposed to inappropriate or unintended use
  • Borland VisiTransact– an improved service that ensures consistency and integrity of mission-critical data even when other parts of the system fail
  • Borland VisiNaming– an improved service that helps client applications obtain an object reference by using the logical name assigned to that object

VisiBroker tightly integrates with multiple development environments and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions such as Borland JBuilder®, C++Builder® and Delphi™. This level of choice and integration should make development of new CORBA, J2EE and Web services-based applications both faster and easier. In a time when IT budgets remain tight, VisiBroker is designed to ensure a linear migration path from CORBA to other technology platforms as well as backward compatibility with previous VisiBroker versions.

Easing Deployment Challenges in Heterogeneous IT Environments

Borland today also introduced the newest version of Borland Janeva, which provides secure, reliable and high-performance interoperability between Microsoft .NET applications and J2EE and CORBA infrastructures.

Borland Janeva 6.5 is designed to bring greater efficiency and provide more synchronous communication within large, multi-user applications than Web service integrations can currently offer. This will help IT operations teams to maintain performance levels and keep costs down, while allowing them to capitalize on the strengths of multiple platforms and existing legacy investments.

With this release, Borland Janeva will expand support for more application types, including the IONA Orbix® 3.x product line and Microsoft applications built on COM / DCOM architectures. Borland Janeva also includes support for partially trusted callers in the Microsoft .NET framework, allowing secured .NET applications delivered from a central server to various clients to access J2EE and CORBA infrastructures.

In addition to Borland Janeva, Borland also announced new versions of Borland Deployment Op-Center and Borland Enterprise Server, AppServer Edition to help reduce the cost and risk of deploying applications in increasingly heterogeneous and distributed environments.

Borland Deployment Op-Center 6.5 helps operations teams maintain control and availability of highly distributed software applications by providing a consolidated view of network services and the infrastructure that supports them. The solution now includes tight integration with Borland Optimizeit ServerTrace 3.0 for “right click” monitoring of J2EE application performance, as well as new configuration templates for popular J2EE application servers, including BEA WebLogic Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server. In addition to J2EE-based resources, Deployment Op-Center 6.5 can deploy and manage applications based on CORBA, the Microsoft .NET Framework or a mixture of these technologies.

Borland Enterprise Server 6.5, AppServer Edition, already one of the most reliable, scalable and high-performance application servers for the J2EE platform, now includes more performance improvements and support for Web services. The new release supports three new Java Message Service (JMS) solutions – OpenJMS (open source), SonicMQ and Tibco Enterprise for JMS. It also provides enhanced Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration with Borland Optimizeit ServerTrace 3.0 for managing J2EE performance, and additional support for Java Management Extensions (JMX) to ensure applications are manageable regardless of the solution used.

Availability

Borland Enterprise Server 6.5, VisiBroker and AppServer Edition, Borland Janeva and Borland Deployment Op-Center are expected to be available in the next three months on the Windows®, Solaris™ and Linux platforms. For more information on Borland deployment solutions, visit http://www.borland.com/us/products/.

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 teams, technology and processes 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.

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 projected acceptance by existing or potential customers of new technologies and the potential features of Borland’s VisiBroker; Janeva; Deployment Op-Center; and Enterprise Server, AppServer Edition, the customer benefits to be derived therefrom, and the anticipated dates of availability of these products. 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, the following: rapid technological change that can adversely affect the demand for these products, shifts in customer demand, delays in availability, software errors and announcements by competitors. 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.

VisiBroker, JBuilder, C++Builder, Delphi, Janeva and all other Borland brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software Corporation in the United States and other countries. J2EE and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. CORBA is a registered trademark of Object Management Group, Inc. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.