New Educational Pricing Brings Cross-Platform Development and Web Services to Colleges and Universities
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., July 3, 2001 - Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq NM: BORL), a leading provider of e-business implementation platform solutions, today announced new educational pricing for its suite of award-winning rapid application development (RAD) environments -- Borland® Delphi™ 6 and Kylix™, as well as its number one rated Java™ development environment -- Borland® JBuilder™. Borland now offers educational editions of these products at special prices for colleges and universities to instruct students using best of breed development environments and to introduce cross-platform solutions to students before they enter the work force.
Delphi 6 and Kylix are RAD environments that allow users to quickly and easily build e-business applications for both the Windows® and Linux® operating environments (OE). JBuilder is a Java development environment that allows users to develop and deploy e-business applications on Windows, Linux and the Solaris™ OE, and offers fully integrated development support for Extensible Markup Language (XML).
"Greater access to real-world environments is critical to the quality of students' education," said Andrew Noymer, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. "Borland technology is giving our university the best tools at a reasonable price so students can be up and running with the most innovative technology on the market today."
"Borland is proud to contribute to the education of new developers," said Frank Slootman, vice president of software products at Borland. "Delphi, Kylix and JBuilder offer the best foundation for students learning to create enterprise class applications that support the latest standards and architectures such as the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) and Web Services."
Pricing and availability
Borland Delphi 6 Enterprise Educational edition and the Professional Educational edition are available immediately, and specially-priced at $399 and $99 respectively. In early July, Borland Kylix Server Developer Educational edition and the Desktop Educational edition will be available and priced at $399 and $99 respectively. Borland JBuilder 5 Enterprise Educational edition and the Professional Educational edition are available at $399.95 and $99.95 respectively. For more information about the educational pricing program and where to buy these products, please visit www.borland.com/education.
About Borland® Delphi™ 6
Borland Delphi 6 is the first rapid application development environment for the Windows operating system that supports new and emerging Web Services. With Delphi 6, corporate or individual developers can create next generation e-business applications quickly and easily. Major features include BizSnap™, WebSnap™ and DataSnap™ that enable developers to create applications that simplify business-to-business integration with full support for XML, SOAP, and WSDL. Delphi 6 support for industry standard Web Services enables immediate and ongoing integration with emerging Web Services based vendor platforms .Net™ and BizTalk™ from Microsoft®, and ONE from Sun Microsystems®. For more information about Delphi 6 pricing and availability, visit www.borland.com/delphi.
About Borland® Kylix™
Borland Kylix, the first native-code RAD environment for the Linux platform, is a component-based development environment for two-way visual development of graphical user interface (GUI), Internet, database, and Web server applications. Kylix integrates a leading edge development environment, interactive debugger, intuitive visual designer and a comprehensive component palette to give developers the tools they need to deliver Linux applications fast. The state of the art Kylix optimizing compiler is seamlessly integrated to produce high-performance applications at high-speed. For more information about Kylix pricing and availability, visit www.borland.com/kylix.
About Borland® JBuilder™ 5
Borland JBuilder 5 is the most comprehensive award-winning visual development environment for creating business, database and distributed applications based on the Java 2 platform. The product supports development on Windows, Linux, and the Solaris OE. It includes strong support for the J2EE platform to enable programmers to rapidly deliver reliable and scalable Enterprise JavaBeans™ technology-based components (EJB™ components). JBuilder 5 provides visual tools and reusable components for rapidly creating platform-independent applications for the Java 2 platform. For more information about JBuilder 5 pricing and availability, visit www.borland.com/jbuilder.
About Borland
Borland is a leading provider of high performance e-business implementation platforms designed to increase developer productivity and reduce time to market for enterprise software projects. E-business implementation platforms consist of software products that allow businesses to develop, deploy and manage e-business applications. Borland is the vendor of choice for professional e-business solution providers who demand a vendor-independent implementation platform that supports rapid time to market, high productivity, performance and availability. Founded in 1983, Borland is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Borland at http://www.borland.com, the community site at http://community.borland.com or call Borland at (800) 632-2864.