"Our users have responded enthusiastically to JBuilder's power and ease-of-use. As JBuilder 2 introduces new, powerful, and exciting technologies, such as BeanInsight analysis and diagnostic capabilities, we are proud to add our JavaBeans as a new feature," said Tom Keffer, Rogue Wave CEO, "JBuilder developers can now take advantage our JavaBeans to create both a complex and rich front-end to their Java projects."

"Our customer demand has created a need for the highest quality components and the presence of Rogue Wave's best-of-breed classes signifies their importance as we bring our industrial strength JBuilder development environment to the enterprise," said Zack Urlocker, Borland's vice president of marketing.

Rogue Wave Software's Blend.J product is one of the products found in the recently announced StudioJ, which is a powerful compilation of Rogue Wave's Java products: Grid.J (a 100% Java port of Stingray Software's Objective Grid product), Blend.J, Chart.J (a charting class library that gives you unprecedented flexibility in extending and customizing charts to your specific needs), and DBTools.J (a database library with which you can develop Enterprise-quality Java database applications fast).

Borland JBuilder is a family of highly-productive, visual development tools for creating high-performance, platform-independent applications using the Java programming language created by Sun Microsystems. JBuilder's scalable, component-based environment is designed for all levels of "Information Network" development projects ranging from applets and applications that require networked database connectivity to client/server and enterprise-wide, distributed multi-tier computing solutions. As part of Borland's Golden Gate strategy to support major industry standards in all of its tools, JBuilder's open environment supports 100% Pure Java, JavaBeans, JDK 1.2, JDK 1.1x, JFC/Swing, CORBA, RMI, JDBC, ODBC, and all major corporate database servers.

About Rogue Wave Software
Rogue Wave Software is a leading provider of object-oriented software parts and related tools. The Company's C++ and Java-based products are used to develop scalable, cross-platform software applications for a wide variety of environments, including client/server, intranet and Internet. Founded in 1989, the Company shipped the first commercially available library for the C++ programming language the same year and the first visual builder for the Java development language in February 1996. Rogue Wave completed its initial public offering of common stock on November 21, 1996 and a secondary financing on August 21, 1997. Rogue Wave common stock trades on the NASDAQ market under the symbol RWAV. The company has headquarters in Boulder, CO.

About Borland International
Borland International, Inc. is a leading provider of high-quality software products for software application developers worldwide. Borland is distinguished for its award-winning family of rapid application development tools and scalable middleware technology for desktop, client/server, Internet/intranet, and enterprise systems. The company's products are supported through comprehensive corporate and independent developer programs, value added resellers, and systems integrators. Founded in 1983, Borland is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California.

CONTACT: Kevin Gartner of Rogue Wave Software, 541-766-2130 or Brenda Nashawaty of CHEN PR, 781-466-8282, bnasawaty@chenpr.com.