"JBuilder has been an outstanding success with our customers, the press, analysts, and the industry," said John Floisand, president of Borland. "In 1998, JBuilder acceptance grew dramatically, and it won major awards from Java Developers Journal and Javaworld, two leading Java publications. We have built on this success and have designed JBuilder 3 to be the premier solution for individual and corporate developers who need comprehensive set of tools for creating pure Java applications, applets, servlets, JavaBeans, and Enterprise JavaBeans™."

"With the release of JBuilder 2 last year, Borland's revenues and market share for JBuilder grew at a faster rate than any other Java development tool, making Borland one of the leaders in the Java application development tools market place," said Sally Cusack, analyst and research manager at International Data Corporation. "With full support for the Java 2 platform, enhanced database development capabilities, and high quality tools for distributed application development and deployment, JBuilder 3 is well-positioned to continue its momentum."

JBuilder 3 is the latest version of Borland's award-winning rapid application development tool for creating Java, business, database and distributed applications. The product includes comprehensive support for the Java 2 platform so programmers can rapidly deliver reliable and scalable Java applications written entirely in the Java language; visual tools and reusable components for rapidly creating platform-independent applications, servlets, and applets; integrated and automated CORBA support for dramatically reducing the time and effort required to develop and deploy robust, high-availability CORBA clients, servers, and servlets; and Wizards and Visual Designers for creating reusable JavaBeans and Enterprise JavaBeans. The product's open environment also supports JDK 1.1.x, JFC/Swing components, JavaBeans, Enterprise JavaBeans, CORBA, RMI, JDBC and all major corporate database servers.

"We have found JBuilder 3's tight integration with CORBA and the new ORB Explorer to be essential, as we create more multi-tier, distributed applications to meet the scalability and reliability requirements of our business critical applications," said Dion Hinchcliffe, manager of technology development, T. Rowe Price. "JBuilder 3 is playing a key role in simplifying our distributed application development process as we build our next-generation financial services applications."

Three versions of JBuilder 3
JBuilder 3 is available in three versions -- JBuilder 3 Enterprise, JBuilder 3 Professional, and JBuilder 3 Standard. A detailed matrix of features included in JBuilder 3 is located at www.borland.com/jbuilder . All of the features described below are included in JBuilder 3 Enterprise:

• Enhanced Java 2 development environment, with Java 2 hosted designers; JDK/Switching for compiling and debugging using multiple JDKs; 300+ JavaBean components, with source code; and visual tools for creating Java applications, applets, servlets, Enterprise JavaBeans, and distributed CORBA applications.
• Java 2, remote and multi-JDK debugging, providing the debugging flexibility needed by professional Java technology developers and remote debugging for debugging of complex distributed applications.
• Visual database development tools, including the Application Generator, Data Modeler, Java SQL Builder, and Java JDBC Explorer to rapidly create database applications for the Java 2 platform.
• Visual tools for CORBA development, including the Application Generator, Data Modeler, and ORB Explorer. JBuilder also includes integrated CORBA development using either VisiBroker 3.4 or OrbixWeb™.
• Includes InterBase, Borland's embedded database product.
• Open Tools API/JBuilder 3 Companion CD. The Open Tools API allows JBuilder 3 users to easily integrate third-party tools or wizards into the JBuilder IDE. The JBuilder 3 Companion CD contains full or lite versions of leading third party applications and tools that can be used in conjunction with JBuilder. Many of the tools on the Companion CD are integrated into the JBuilder environment using the Open Tools API.

"We are pleased that JBuilder 3, one of the leading Java development tools, provides developers with a comprehensive set of visual development tools for rapidly creating applications based on the Java 2 platform," said Jon Kannegaard, vice president and general manager of the Java platform at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "The Java 2 platform provides developers with the speed, security and functionality that makes it easier than ever to create interoperable, mission-critical enterprise applications."

PC Week magazine has just completed the review of JBuilder 3 and gave the product consistently high marks against the competition. "JBuilder 3 offers a full-blown Java 2 rapid visual development environment with extensive support for two- and three-tier database application development and for CORBA-based applications," said PC Week magazine in an April 12, 1999 product review. "PC Week Labs' tests of a beta version of (JBuilder 3 Enterprise) showed that it is a powerful environment with a strong feature setàif the shipping product lives up to the beta's potential, it will be the tool of choice for enterprise Java development." The review can be accessed at http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,398346,00.html

Pricing and Availability
Customers can immediately place orders for JBuilder 3 Enterprise, JBuilder 3 Professional, and JBuilder 3 Standard on the web and from major software distribution channels for availabiliy later in the quarter.

About Borland
Borland enhances the productivity of independent and corporate software developers through its Borland family of visual development and embedded database tools - and through borland.com, the premiere Web destination for software developers. In addition to its award-winning Delphi, C++Builder, JBuilder, MIDAS and InterBase products, Borland's borland.com website offers an online community and E-commerce site for software developers seeking a wide range of technical information, support services, and third-party products. Based in Scotts Valley, California, Borland is a division of Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq:INPR) -- a leading provider of solutions that simplify the complexity of software application development.