LONG BEACH, Calif - July 25, 2001 - Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq NM: BORL), a leading provider of e-business platform solutions, today announced at the 12th Annual Borland Developer Conference (BorCon™), the availability of Borland® Kylix™ Open Edition. Kylix Open Edition enables the Linux® community to quickly and easily create sophisticated, highly visual end-user graphical user interface (GUI) open source applications with the ease of drag-and-drop development. Included in the Kylix Open Edition is FreeCLX™, the open source, GPL-licensed version of the component library for cross-platform. Kylix Open Edition delivers a comprehensive palette of over 100 reusable, customizable and extensible FreeCLX components for open source Linux applications. Developers can download Kylix Open Edition from the Borland Web site at www.borland.com/downloads/.

"The open source community is extremely important because they are shaping the future of application development," said Bill Claybrook, research director, Linux and Open Source Software, Aberdeen Group. "Borland is bringing its FreeCLX component library and framework for developing applications to the community. This will allow Open Source developers to create virtually hundreds of CLX™ cross-platform components and bring them to market quickly."

"Kylix Open Edition reinforces our commitment to the open source community, and provides freedom of choice for rapid application development," said Simon Thornhill, vice president and general manager of the RAD business unit for Borland.

About Borland® Kylix™
Borland Kylix is a high-performance rapid application development (RAD) environment for the Linux platform. Kylix is a component-based environment for two-way visual development of graphical user interface (GUI), Internet, database and server applications. Kylix is powered by a new high-speed native Delphi™ compiler for Linux and implements a native Linux and cross-platform version of the Borland Visual Component Library (VCL) architecture called CLX. CLX is designed to radically speed native Linux application development and simplify the porting of Delphi applications between Windows® and Linux operating systems.

Borland Kylix is available in the Server Developer Edition for $1999, the Desktop Developer Edition for $199 for a limited time, and the Open Edition. Kylix Open Edition for open source software (GPL) developers will be available for free download. For more information about Kylix, please visit the Borland Web site, www.borland.com/kylix.